- Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- "I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- You say, 'Where now is the great man's house, the tents where wicked men lived?'
- Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
- that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, that he is delivered from the day of wrath?
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- "Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.
- "Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plans by which you would wrong me.
- "For you say, 'Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?'
- "Have you not asked wayfaring men, And do you not recognize their witness?
- "For the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity; They will be led forth at the day of fury.
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