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\c 40
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\p
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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Job,
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\q1
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\v 2 "Do you still want to argue with me, the Almighty One?
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\q2 Since you criticize me, you should be able to answer my questions!"
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\v 3 Then Job replied to Yahweh,
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\q1
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\v 4 "Now I realize that I am completely worthless. So how could I answer those questions?
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\q2 I will put my hand over my mouth and not say anything.
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\q1
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\v 5 I have already said more than I should have said,
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\q2 so now I will say nothing more."
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\p
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\v 6 Then Yahweh again spoke to Job from inside a powerful storm. He said,
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\v 7 "I want to ask you some questions,
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\q2 so act like a man and
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\q2 get ready to answer my questions.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 Are you going to accuse me and say that I am unjust?
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\q2 Are you going to say that what I have done is wrong, in order that you can say that what you have done is right?
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\q1
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\v 9 Do you have the same amount of power as I do?
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\q2 Can your voice sound as loud as thunder, as mine can?
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\q1
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\v 10 If you can do that, then put on the robes
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\q2 that show that you are glorious and are greatly honored!
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\q1
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\v 11 Show that you are very angry;
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\q2 show that you have the right to humble people who are very proud!
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\v 12 Humble those proud people just by looking at them angrily!
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\q2 Crush wicked people quickly!
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\q1
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\v 13 Bury them in the ground!
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\q2 Send them to the place where dead people are,
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\q2 where they will not be able to get out!
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\v 14 If you do that, I will congratulate you
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\q2 and say that truly you can save yourself by your own ability.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 15 Think also about hippopotamuses.
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\q2 I made you, and I made them also.
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\q2 They eat grass, like oxen do.
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\q1
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\v 16 Their legs are very strong,
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\q2 and the muscles of their bellies are very powerful.
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\v 17 Their tails are stiff like the branches of a cedar tree.
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\q2 The muscles of their thighs are close together.
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\v 18 Their thigh bones are like tubes made of bronze,
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\q2 and the bones of their legs are like bars made of iron.
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\v 19 Hippopotamuses are among the strongest of the animals that I made,
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\q2 and I, who created them, am the only one who can kill them.
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\v 20 On the hills grows food for them to eat
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\q2 while many other wild animals play nearby.
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\v 21 They lie down in the water under the lotus plants;
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\q2 they hide in tall reeds in the swamps.
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\v 22 The hippopotamuses find shade under the lotus plants,
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\q2 and they are surrounded by willow trees growing in the streams.
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\v 23 They are not disturbed by raging, flooding rivers;
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\q2 they are not even disturbed when rivers like the Jordan River rush over them.
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\q1
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\v 24 No one can catch them with hooks
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\q2 or by piercing their noses with the teeth of a trap!
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