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10 How terrible it will be for you
    who make laws that aren’t fair!
How terrible for you
    who write laws that make life hard for others!
You take away the rights of poor people.
    You hold back what is fair from my people who are suffering.
You take for yourselves what belongs to widows.
    You rob children whose fathers have died.
What will you do on the day when the Lord punishes you?
    On that day trouble will come from far away.
Who will you run to for help?
    Who will you trust your riches with?

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10 Woe(A) to those who make unjust laws,
    to those who issue oppressive decrees,(B)
to deprive(C) the poor of their rights
    and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,(D)
making widows their prey
    and robbing the fatherless.(E)
What will you do on the day of reckoning,(F)
    when disaster(G) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?(H)
    Where will you leave your riches?

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