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12 Are you not from of old,
O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
Youl shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have marked themm for judgment;
O Rock, you have established themn for reproof.
13 Your eyes are too pure to see evil,
and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.o
Why do you look at the treacherous?
Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up
someone more righteous than him?
14 You make humankind like fish of the sea,
like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
15 He brings up all of them with a fishhook;
he drags them up with his fishnet,
and he gathers them in his dragnet.
Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet
and makes offerings to his dragnet,
for by them ⌊he makes a good living⌋p
and his food is rich.
17 Will he therefore empty his fishnet
and continually kill nations without showing mercy?
The Righteous Will Live by Faith
2 I will stand at my post,
and station myself on the rampart.
And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
l | Hebrew “we shall not die,” considered a deliberate scribal change of the text to avoid offensive language toward Yahweh |
m | Hebrew “him” |
n | Hebrew “him” |
o | Or “trouble” |
p | Literally “his portion is fat” |
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