But: Psalms 49:12; Job 21:32; Ezekiel 31:14
like men: Or, "like Adam," keadam:.
and fall: etc. Or, "as fall as one of them, O ye princes." Psalms 83:11
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Psalms 82:7
Psalms 82:7
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