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(3) 16 But to the wicked God saith, why
dost thou the mention make of my statutes, why in thy mouth should’st thou my cov’nant take?

17 Sith thou dost hate teaching and dost my words behind thee cast.

18 When thou didst see a thief, then thou with him consented hast; And likewise with adulterers thy part hath been the same.

19 Thy mouth to evil thou dost give, and guile thy tongue doth frame,

20 Thou fittest, thou dost speak against the man that is thy brother: and thou dost slander him that is the son of thine own mother.

21 These things hast thou committed, and in silence I kept close: that I was altogether like thy self, thou didst suppose:

I’ll thee reprove, and in order before thine eyes them set.

22 O therefore now consider this ye that do God forget:

Lest I you tear, and there be not any deliverer.

23 He glorifieth me that doth praise unto me offer.

24 And he that doth order aright his conversation, to him will I give that he may see Gods salvation.

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