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10 How terrible it will be for the child who says to his father,
    ‘Why are you giving me life?’
How terrible it will be for the child who says to his mother,
    ‘Why are you giving birth to me?’”

11 The Lord is the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker.
    He says this:
“You ask me about what will happen.
    You question me about my children.
    You give me orders about what I have made.
12 I made the earth.
    And I made all the people living on it.
With my own hands I stretched out the skies.
    I command all the armies in the sky.

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10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
    ‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
    ‘What have you brought to birth?’

11 “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One(A) of Israel, and its Maker:(B)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?(C)
12 It is I who made the earth(D)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;(E)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.(F)

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