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Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
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Verse 3. Calumniate permissively, by treating me in such a manner, that others lay false crimes to my charge. Hebrew “oppress and despise the work.”—Wicked, who are ready enough ( Bible.) to assert that virtue is useless, ( Calmet.) and that God mindeth not human affairs. My affliction will confirm them in their false notion, ( Bible.) and my friends will triumph as if their arguments were well founded. The devil will also exult. Calmet.—He knew that God could not be guilty of calumny, and inquireth why he is afflicted. Worthington.
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