God's Power and Impartial Justice

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“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.

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He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

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If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

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then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

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He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

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If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

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But if they don’t listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

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“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

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They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

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He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.