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\v 1 Then Job replied in this way:
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\q1
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\v 2 "Listen to what I say, all of you;
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\q2 that is the only thing that you can do that will comfort me.
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\q1
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\v 3 Be patient with me, and allow me to speak.
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\q2 Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me.
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\q1
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\v 4 It is certainly not people against whom I am complaining, but God!
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\q2 And it is certainly right for me to be impatient!
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\q1
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\v 5 Look at me! Does what you see not cause you to be appalled
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\q2 and to put your hands over your mouths and say no more?
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\v 6 When I think about what has happened to me,
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\q2 I am frightened and my entire body shakes.
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\v 7 But allow me to ask this: 'Why do wicked people continue to live,
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\q2 and become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?'
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\v 8 They see their children around them,
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\q2 and they watch them while they grow up and start to live in their own houses.
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\v 9 Wicked people live in their own houses without being afraid,
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\q2 and God does not punish them.
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\v 10 Their bulls always mate with the cows successfully,
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\q2 and the cows always give birth to calves and never miscarry.
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\v 11 Wicked people send their young children outside to play,
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\q2 and the children jump around happily like lambs in a pasture.
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\v 12 The children sing to the sound of tambourines and lyres,
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\q2 and they are happy to hear the sound of flutes.
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\v 13 Wicked people enjoy having good things all the time that they are alive,
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\q2 and they die quietly and go down to the place of the dead.
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\v 14 While they are alive, they say to God, 'Leave us alone;
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\q2 we do not care about how you desire us to conduct our lives!
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\v 15 Why do you, Almighty God, think that we should serve you?
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\q2 What advantage do we get if we pray to you?'
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\v 16 Wicked people think that they have become prosperous because of what they have done,
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\q2 but I do not want to have anything to do with their thinking.
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\v 17 How often does it happen that wicked people die,
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\q2 without experiencing disasters?
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\q2 Does God ever punish them because he is angry with them?
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\v 18 He does not blow them away as wind blows away straw;
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\q2 they are never carried off by a whirlwind.
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\v 19 You say, 'When people have committed sins,
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\q2 God waits and punishes their children because of those sins;'
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\q1 I say that God should punish those who sin, not their children,
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\q2 in order that the sinners may know that it is because of their own sins that they are being punished.
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\v 20 I hope that wicked people will live to experience God destroying them,
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\q2 that they will experience Almighty God punishing them.
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\v 21 After wicked people are dead,
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\q2 they are not at all concerned for their families who are still alive.
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\v 22 Since God judges everyone, even those who are in heaven,
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\q2 who can teach him anything?
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\v 23 Some people die while they are very healthy,
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\q2 while they are peaceful and not afraid of anything.
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\v 24 Their bodies are fat;
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\q2 their bones are strong.
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\v 25 Other people die being very miserable;
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\q2 they have never experienced good things happening to them.
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\v 26 They die and are buried,
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\q2 and maggots cover their bodies.
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\q1 Everyone dies, so it is clear that dying is not always the punishment for being wicked.
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\v 27 Listen, I know what you three are thinking,
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\q2 and I know the evil things that you plan to do to me.
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\v 28 You say, 'What happened to the tents in which wicked people were living?
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\q2 The houses of evil rulers have been destroyed!'
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\v 29 Have you never asked people who travel much?
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\q2 Do you not believe their reports about what they have seen,
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\v 30 that wicked people usually do not suffer at the time when there are great disasters;
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\q2 that when God punishes people, someone rescues the wicked? that wicked people are the ones whom someone else rescues when God punishes people?
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\v 31 There is no one who accuses wicked people,
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\q2 and there is no one who pays them back for all the evil things that they have done.
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\v 32 When the corpses of wicked people are carried to their graves,
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\q2 people are put there to guard those graves.
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\v 33 A huge number of people go to the grave site;
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\q2 some go in front of the procession and some come behind,
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\q2 and the wicked ones who have died surely feel good when people throw clods of dirt on their graves.
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\v 34 So how can you comfort me by talking nonsense?
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\q2 Every reply that you give me is full of lies!"
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