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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.