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13 “How horrible it will be for the person who builds his house dishonestly
    and his upper rooms through injustice.
        He makes his neighbors work for nothing
            and doesn’t pay them for their work.
14 He says, ‘I will build a large house for myself with big upper rooms.’
    He cuts out windows in it,
        panels the rooms with cedar,
            and paints them red.
15 Do you think you’re a better king than others
    because you use more cedar?
    Your father ate and drank and did what is fair and right.
    Everything went well for him.

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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds(B) his palace by unrighteousness,
    his upper rooms by injustice,
making his own people work for nothing,
    not paying(C) them for their labor.
14 He says, ‘I will build myself a great palace(D)
    with spacious upper rooms.’
So he makes large windows in it,
    panels it with cedar(E)
    and decorates it in red.(F)

15 “Does it make you a king
    to have more and more cedar?
Did not your father have food and drink?
    He did what was right and just,(G)
    so all went well(H) with him.

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