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18 These are things wise men have told;
    their ancestors told them, and they have hidden nothing.
19 (The land was given to their fathers only,
    and no ·foreigner [stranger] lived among them [C suggesting wisdom untainted by foreign influence].)
20 The wicked suffer pain all their lives;
    the cruel suffer during all the years saved up for them.

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18 what the wise have declared,
    hiding nothing received from their ancestors(A)
19 (to whom alone the land(B) was given
    when no foreigners moved among them):
20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment,(C)
    the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.(D)

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