“You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,”

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.