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# Will all these not take up ... saying, 'Woe ... taken?'
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"All of these nations and peoples will certainly take up ... saying,'Woe ... taken.'"
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# take up a proverb and mockery, riddles
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They will use the words later in the verse to mock him.
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# riddles
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This is a question to which the one who asks knows the answer but hides it with figures of speech so that the other person needs to work hard to think of it.
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# Woe to the one increasing what is not his
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"Woe to the one who claims for himself more and more things that do not belong to him"
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# For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?
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"For how long will you make yourself rich by extorting others?"
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