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For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
    your tongue has muttered perverseness.
No one calls for justice,
    nor does anyone plead for truth.
They trust in vanity and speak lies;
    they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch adders’ eggs
    and weave the spider’s web;
he who eats of their eggs dies,
    and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

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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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