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\c 22
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\v 1 Then Eliphaz replied, saying this:
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\q1
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\v 2 "No one can be useful to God!
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\q2 People who are wise can be useful to themselves, but not to God.
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\q1
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\v 3 If you were righteous, that would not please Almighty God, would it?
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\q2 If you lived a perfect life, that would not help him, would it?
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\q1
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\v 4 Do you honor God, and is that why he punishes you?
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\q2 Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?
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\q1
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\v 5 No, it certainly must be because you are extremely wicked.
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\q2 It must be that no one can count the evil things that you have done!
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\v 6 You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you;
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\q2 you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.
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\v 7 You must not have given water to those who were thirsty,
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\q2 and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.
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\v 8 Because you were very powerful, you must have taken over all the people's land,
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\q2 and then you began to live on that land, even though others honored you very much.
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\v 9 When widows came to you for help, you must have sent them away without giving them anything,
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\q2 and you must have oppressed orphans.
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\v 10 Because you did all those things, now there are traps that will catch you;
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\q2 now things appear that terrify you and cause you to tremble.
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\v 11 It is as though it had become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything,
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\q2 and it is as though a flood covered you.
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\v 12 But consider this, Job: God lives high up in the heavens.
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\q2 From there he looks down on the highest stars.
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\v 13 So why do you say, 'God knows nothing about what we are doing'?
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\q2 And why do you say, 'Dark clouds keep him from seeing us, so he cannot judge us'?
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\v 14 Do you think that while he walks on the dome that covers the sky,
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\q2 where there are thick clouds around him, he cannot see what we do?'
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\v 15 Will you, Job, continue to conduct your life in the old way
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\q2 that evil people have done for many years?
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\v 16 They suddenly died while they were still young;
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\q2 they disappeared like everything disappears when there is a flood .
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\v 17 They kept saying to God, 'Leave us alone,' 'Allow us to be alone,'
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\q2 and they also said defiantly, 'Almighty God can do nothing to harm us!'
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\v 18 Yet it was God who filled their houses with good things;
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\q2 so I cannot agree at all to follow what the wicked plan.
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\v 19 When righteous people see that God punishes wicked people, they are glad,
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\q2 and they laugh at those wicked people.
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\v 20 They say, 'Now our enemies have been destroyed,
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\q2 and fire has burned up anything left of their wealth.'
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\v 21 So, Job, be reconciled to God and make peace with him;
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\q2 if you do that, good things will happen to you.
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\v 22 Allow him to teach you,
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\q2 and put his words into your mind.
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\v 23 If you humble yourself and return to God, he will restore you;
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\q2 if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,
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\v 24 and if you throw away your gold,
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\q2 the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir land,
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\v 25 then Almighty God will be to be as precious to you as your gold and your silver have been.
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\v 26 Then you will be happy because of God,
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\q2 and you will be able to approach him confidently.
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\v 27 You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do;
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\q2 you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.
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\v 28 Everything that you decide to do will be successful;
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\q2 it will be as though a light were shining on the road in front of you.
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\v 29 God humbles those who are proud,
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\q2 but he saves those who are downcast.
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\v 30 God rescues those who are innocent,
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\q2 so he will rescue you if you start doing things that are right."
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