15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor(A) and are counting on it.(B) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.(C)

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15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.

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24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,(A)
    he blindfolds its judges.(B)
    If it is not he, then who is it?(C)

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24 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?

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20 You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;(A)
    you change their countenance and send them away.(B)

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20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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though you were a powerful man, owning land(A)
    an honored man,(B) living on it.(C)

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But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

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12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(A)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(B)

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12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

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22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;(A)
    though they become established,(B) they have no assurance of life.(C)

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22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

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20 They die in an instant, in the middle of the night;(A)
    the people are shaken and they pass away;
    the mighty are removed without human hand.(B)

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20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

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28 They caused the cry of the poor to come before him,
    so that he heard the cry of the needy.(A)

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28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

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“People cry out(A) under a load of oppression;(B)
    they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.(C)

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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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22 Stop trusting in mere humans,(A)
    who have but a breath(B) in their nostrils.
    Why hold them in esteem?(C)

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22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

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“Assyria(A) will fall by no human sword;
    a sword, not of mortals, will devour(B) them.
They will flee before the sword
    and their young men will be put to forced labor.(C)

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Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

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17 Before him all the nations(A) are as nothing;(B)
    they are regarded by him as worthless
    and less than nothing.(C)

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17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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23 He brings princes(A) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.(B)

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23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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