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They gladden the king with their evil
and the princes with their lies.
All of them are practicing adultery,
as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring
    or kneading dough when it is leavened.
On the day of our king,
princes become sick from wine.
His hand drags scorners along.

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“They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.(A)
They are all adulterers,(B)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,(C)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.(D)

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