They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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Interpretation
Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment.
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This thought runs through Jeremiah 5:25-29.