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19     Just as summer’s heat and drought melt and carry off the winter snow,
        the land of the dead digests and carries away sinners.
20     The very wombs whence they came forget them;
        the worms will feast on them until no one remembers they existed;
        the skeletons of wickedness dry up and snap like twigs.

21     They deliberately prey on women with no children to protect them
        and don’t care to lend a hand to widows!

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