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12 Dying people groan in the city.
    People who are injured cry out for help.
    But God accuses no one of doing wrong.

13 “There are people who fight against the light.
    God’s ways are strange to them.
    And they do not stay in the lighted path.
14 When the light of day is gone, the murderer gets up.
    He kills poor and needy people.
    At night he goes about like a thief.

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12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(A)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(B)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(C)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(D)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(E) the poor and needy,(F)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(G)

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