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We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
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Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
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for if the righteous man is God's child, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
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Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance.
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Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.