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21 What will you say
    when Yahweh makes the people you thought were your friends
        your new masters?
            Won’t pain grip you like a woman in labor?
22 If you ask yourself,
    “Why do these things happen to me?”
        it’s because you have so many sins.
            Your clothes have been torn off
                and your limbs are bare.
23 Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin
    or leopards change their spots?
    Can you do good
    when you’re taught to do wrong?

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