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With your hands you have killed others.
    Your fingers are covered with blood from killing people.
With your lips you have lied.
    With your tongue you say evil things.
People take each other to court unfairly.
    No one tells the truth in arguing his case.
They accuse each other falsely and tell lies.
    They cause trouble and create more evil.
They hatch evil like eggs from poisonous snakes.
    If you eat one of those eggs, you will die.
    And if you break one open, a poisonous snake comes out.
People tell lies as they would spin a spider’s web.

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For your hands are stained with blood,(A)
    your fingers with guilt.(B)
Your lips have spoken falsely,(C)
    and your tongue mutters wicked things.
No one calls for justice;(D)
    no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely(E) on empty arguments, they utter lies;(F)
    they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.(G)
They hatch the eggs of vipers(H)
    and spin a spider’s web.(I)
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

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