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Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The unjust turned aside from the belly: they went astray from the womb, speaking falsehood.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Which will not hear to the voice of enchanters, charming with enchantments from wisdom.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>God destroyed their teeth in their mouth: Jehovah broke down the young lions grinders.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They shall melt away as water shall go about to them: he will bend his arrow, they shall be as cut off.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Before your pots shall perceive the thorn, as living, as in wrath, he will sweep him away.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The just one shall rejoice as seeing vengeance: he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the unjust one.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/58-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And man shall say, Truly, fruit to the just one: truly there is a God judging in the earth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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