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The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

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The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
    but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.(A)

Hopes placed in mortals die with them;(B)
    all the promise of[a] their power comes to nothing.(C)

The righteous person is rescued from trouble,
    and it falls on the wicked instead.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:7 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from