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"I am guiltless; I do not take notice of myself; I reject my life.

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

"It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.'

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

"If the whip kills suddenly, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

"The earth is handed over to the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?