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\c 33
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\v 1 "Now, Job, listen carefully
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\q2 to all that I am going to say.
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\v 2 I am ready to tell you what I think.
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\v 3 In my inner being I know that I am speaking honestly
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\q2 and that I am speaking sincerely.
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\v 4 Almighty God has created me as well as you,
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\q2 and with his breath he has caused me to live.
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\v 5 So answer what I say if you can;
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\q2 think carefully what you will reply to me.
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\v 6 God considers that you and I are both the same;
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\q2 he formed both of us from clay.
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\v 7 So you do not need to be afraid of me;
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\q2 I will not speak against you harshly.
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\v 8 I have heard you speak,
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\q2 and this is what you have said:
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\v 9 'I am innocent, and I have not committed any sins;
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\q2 I am pure, and I have not done things that are wrong.
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\v 10 But God finds reasons to accuse me,
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\q2 and he considers that I am his enemy.
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\v 11 It is as though he had put my feet in stocks,
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\q2 and he watches everything that I do.'
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\v 12 However, what you have said is wrong,
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\q2 and I will tell you what you have said that is wrong.
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\q2 God is much greater than any human.
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\v 13 So, why are you arguing against God? He does not have to tell us why he does anything.
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\v 14 God does, indeed, speak to us in various ways,
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\q2 but we do not pay any attention to what he says.
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\v 15 Sometimes he speaks to us at night in dreams and visions
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\q2 when we are on our beds, heavily asleep.
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\v 16 He reveals things to us in those times;
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\q2 he terrifies us by warning us about things.
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\v 17 He tells us those things in order that we may stop doing evil deeds
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\q2 and to prevent us from becoming proud.
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\v 18 He does not want us to be destroyed;
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\q2 he wants to prevent us from dying while we are still young.
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\v 19 God also corrects us by forcing us to lie on our beds, suffering much pain
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\q2 and fever in our bones.
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\v 20 The result is that we do not desire any food,
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\q2 not even very special food.
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\v 21 Our bodies become very thin so that we look like a skeleton,
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\q2 and our bones stick out so others can count them.
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\v 22 We know that we will soon die
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\q2 and go to the place where dead people are.
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\v 23 Yet sometimes an angel may come to one of us,
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\q2 one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God,
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\q2 to tell us what are the right things for us to do.
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\v 24 The angel is kind to us and says to God,
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\q2 'Please release that person,
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\q1 so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are!
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\q2 Do that because I have found a way for you to keep him from dying!
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\v 25 Please let his body be strong again;
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\q2 please allow him to be strong like he was when he was young!'
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\v 26 If that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept him;
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\q2 he will enter God's presence joyfully,
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\q2 and then he will tell others how God saved him from dying.
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\v 27 He will sing as he says to everyone,
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\q1 'I sinned, and I did things that were not right,
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\q2 but God did not punish me in the way that I deserved.
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\v 28 He has saved me from dying and going to the place where dead people are,
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\q2 and I will continue to enjoy being alive.'
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\v 29 God does all these things for us many times;
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\v 30 he preserves us from dying and going to the place where the dead are,
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\q2 in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive.
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\v 31 So Job, listen to me;
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\q2 do not say anything more; just allow me to speak.
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\v 32 After I speak, if you have something more that you want to say to me,
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\q2 say it, because I would like to find a way to declare that you are innocent.
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\v 33 However, if you have nothing more that you want to say, then just listen to me,
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\q2 and I will teach you how to become wise."
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