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\c 27
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\p
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\v 1 Job replied to his three friends by saying this:
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\q1
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\v 2 "Almighty God has refused to treat me justly.
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\q2 He has caused me to feel bitter.
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\q2 But just as surely as he lives,
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\q1
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\v 3 as long as God's Spirit enables me to breathe,
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\q1
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\v 4 I will not lie;
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\q2 I will not say anything to deceive anyone.
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\q1
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\v 5 I will never admit that what you three have said is true;
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\q2 until the day that I die, I will insist that I have not done things that are wrong.
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\q1
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\v 6 I will say that I am innocent, and I will never say anything different;
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\q2 my inner being will never reproach me as long as I live.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 7 I want God to punish my enemies like he will punish all wicked people;
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\q2 I want him to punish those who oppose me like he punishes all unrighteous people.
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\q1
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\v 8 When it is time for God to get rid of godless people and to cause them to die,
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\q2 there is absolutely nothing good that they can confidently expect to happen to them.
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\q1
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\v 9 When they experience troubles, God will not hear them call out to him for help, will he?
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\q1
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\v 10 Will they be happy about what Almighty God does?
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\q2 Will they begin to pray to him frequently?
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\q2 Certainly not!
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\b
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\q1
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\v 11 I will teach you three something about God's power;
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\q2 I will reveal to you what he is thinking.
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\q1
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\v 12 You three have seen for yourselves powerful things that God has done;
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\q2 so I do not understand why you have been saying such nonsense to me.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 13 I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people,
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\q2 what he does to people who mistreat others.
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\q1
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\v 14 Even if they have many children, those children will die in wars,
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\q2 or they will die because they do not have enough food to eat.
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\q1
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\v 15 Their children who are still alive after they themselves die will perish from diseases,
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\q2 and the wives they leave behind will not even mourn for them.
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\v 16 Sometimes wicked people accumulate a huge amount of silver
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\q2 and pile up clothes as potters pile up clay,
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\v 17 but those wicked people will die, and then righteous people will wear those clothes,
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\q2 and honest people will get their silver and divide it among themselves.
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\q1
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\v 18 The houses that they build are as weak as spider webs;
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\q2 they are like flimsy huts that watchmen live in while they guard people's fields.
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\q1
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\v 19 The wicked people are rich when they lie down at night,
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\q2 but when they wake up in the morning, they find out that their money has disappeared.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 20 Things that terrify them come to them like a flood that they do not expect;
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\q2 during the night a whirlwind carries them away.
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\q1
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\v 21 It is as though the wind from the east had picked them up and carried them away from their homes,
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\q2 and they disappear forever.
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\v 22 That wind strikes them without pitying them
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\q2 while they are running away, trying to escape from its force.
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\q1
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\v 23 That wind is like someone clapping his hands at them to mock them,
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\q2 howling at them and forcing them to run away."
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