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“Shouldn’t this torrent of words be answered?
Does talking a lot make a person right?
Is your babble supposed to put others to silence?
When you mock, is no one to make you ashamed?

“You claim that your teaching is pure;
you tell [God], ‘I am clean in your sight.’

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“Are all these words to go unanswered?(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?(B)
Will your idle talk(C) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?(D)
You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(E)
    and I am pure(F) in your sight.’

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