(A)Those of low estate are but a breath;
    those of high estate (B)are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
    (C)they are together lighter than a breath.

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Surely the lowborn(A) are but a breath,(B)
    the highborn are but a lie.
If weighed on a balance,(C) they are nothing;
    together they are only a breath.

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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

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11 (A)I said in my alarm,
    (B)“All mankind are liars.”

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11 in my alarm I said,
    “Everyone is a liar.”(A)

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11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

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But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, (A)why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

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Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(A) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(B)

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For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

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