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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? God's gracious love never ceases. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Look, here is a young man who refused to make God his strength; instead, he trusted in his great wealth and made his wickedness his strength. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. |
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