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\c 9
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\v 1 Then Job replied,
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\q1
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\v 2 "Yes, yes, I know.
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\q2 But how can anyone say to God, 'I am innocent'?
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\q1
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\v 3 If someone wanted to argue with God about that,
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\q2 God could ask him a thousand questions
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\q2 and that person would not be able to answer any of them!
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\q1
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\v 4 God is very wise and powerful;
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\q2 no one who has tried to argue against him has ever been able to win.
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\q1
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\v 5 He even moves mountains in earthquakes without telling anyone in advance.
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\q2 When he is angry, he turns the mountains upside down.
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\q1
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\v 6 He sends earthquakes that shake the ground;
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\q2 he causes the columns that support the earth to shake.
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\q1
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\v 7 Some days he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise,
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\q2 and some nights he prevents the stars from shining.
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\q1
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\v 8 He alone stretched [stretches] out the sky;
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\q2 he alone puts his feet on the waves and stops their violence.
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\q1
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\v 9 He set in their places the groups of stars— the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the groups of stars in the southern sky.
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\q1
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\v 10 He does great things that we cannot understand;
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\q2 he does more marvelous things than we are able to count.
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\q1
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\v 11 He passes by where I am, but I cannot see him;
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\q2 he moves further on, but I do not see him go.
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\q1
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\v 12 If he wants to snatch someone away, no one could stop him;
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\q2 no one dares ask him, 'Why are you doing that?'
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\q1
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\v 13 God will not very easily stop being angry;
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\q2 he defeated the servants of Rahab, the great sea monster.
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\b
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\v 14 If God took me to court,
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\q2 what could I say to answer him?
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\q1
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\v 15 Even though I would be innocent, I would not be able to answer him.
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\q2 All I could do would be to request God, my judge, to act mercifully toward me.
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\v 16 If I summoned him to come to the courtroom and he said that he would come,
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\q2 I would not believe that he would pay attention to what I would say.
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\v 17 He sends storms to batter me,
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\q2 and he bruises me many times without any reason.
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\v 18 It is as though he will not let me get my breath
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\q2 because he causes me to suffer all the time.
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\v 19 If I tried to wrestle with him, there would be no way to defeat him,
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\q2 because he is stronger than I am.
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\q1 If I called him to appear in court,
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\q2 there is no one who could force him to go there.
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\q1
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\v 20 Even though I was innocent, anything I said would cause him to punish me;
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\q2 even though I had not done anything wrong, he would still prove that I was guilty.
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\b
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\v 21 I have not done anything wrong, but that is not important anymore because I do not care what happens to me.
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\q2 I despise living.
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\v 22 Nothing is important to me
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\q2 because God will get rid of all of us, both those who are innocent and those who are wicked.
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\v 23 When people experience disaster and it causes them to suddenly die,
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\q2 God laughs at it, even if they are innocent.
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\v 24 God has allowed wicked people to control what happens in the world.
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\q2 It is as though he had caused judges to be blind, no longer able to judge fairly.
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\q1 If it is not God who has done that,
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\q2 who, then, has done it?
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\b
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\q1
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\v 25 My days pass very quickly, like a fast runner who passes one by;
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\q2 it is as though the days run away, and nothing good ever happens to me.
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\v 26 My life goes by very rapidly, like a swiftly sailing boat made from reeds
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\q2 or like an eagle that swoops down to seize an animal.
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\v 27 If I smile and say to God, 'I will forget what I am complaining about;
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\q2 I will stop looking sad and try to be cheerful,'
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\v 28 then I become afraid because of all that I am suffering
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\q2 because I know that God does not consider that I am innocent.
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\v 29 He will condemn me anyway,
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\q2 so why should I keep trying in vain to defend myself?
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\v 30 If I washed myself with snow
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\q2 or cleansed my hands with lye
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\q2 to get rid of my guilt,
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\v 31 he would still throw me into a filthy pit;
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\q2 as a result it would be as though even my clothes would detest me.
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\v 32 God is not a human, as I am,
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\q2 so there is no way that I could answer him to prove that I am innocent
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\q2 if we went together to have a trial in a courtroom.
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\q1
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\v 33 There is no one to mediate,
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\q2 no one who has authority over both of us.
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\v 34 I wish someone else could stop God from making me suffer,
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\q2 and that he would not continue to terrify me.
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\v 35 If he did that, I would declare that I am innocent without being afraid of him
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\q2 because I know within myself that I really have not done what is wrong like God thinks that I have.
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