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The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.
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Verse 21. Detracted me, by insinuating that my repentance is hypocrisy. Another mode of detracting is by making known secret faults, ( Worthington.) as calumny imputes false ones. Bible.—Goodness. Septuagint “justice.” Many Greek and Latin copies add: “They have rejected me, the beloved, (Theod. Arab.) as one dead, as an abomination.”—Forsake, verse 22. Saint Ambrose Calmet.
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