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\c 19
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\p
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\v 1 Then Job replied:
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\q1
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\v 2 "How long will you three torment me
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\q2 and discourage me by calling me wicked?
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 You have insulted me many times;
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\q2 are you not ashamed for saying these things to me?
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\q1
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\v 4 Even if it were true that I had done wrong,
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\q2 I have not injured you!
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 If you truly think that you are better than I am,
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\q2 and if you argue that I must be guilty because I am suffering,
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\q1
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\v 6 you should realize that it is God who has caused me to suffer.
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\q2 It is as though he has a net and that he has caught me in it.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 I cry out, 'People are murdering me!',
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\q2 but no one answers me.
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\q1 I call out loudly, but there is no one, not even God, who acts fairly toward me.
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\q1
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\v 8 It is as though God has blocked my road,
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\q2 and I cannot go anywhere;
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\q2 it is as though he has forced me to try to find the road in the darkness.
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\q1
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\v 9 He has taken away my good reputation;
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\q2 it is as though he has removed a crown from my head.
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\q1
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\v 10 He batters me from every side, and I will soon die.
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\q2 I no longer expect him to do anything good for me.
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\q1
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\v 11 He attacks me because he is very angry at me;
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\q2 he considers me to be his enemy.
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\q1
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\v 12 It is as though he were sending his army to attack me;
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\q2 they surround my tent
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\q2 and get ready to attack me.
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\q1
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\v 13 God has caused my brothers to abandon me,
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\q2 and for all those who know me to act like strangers to me.
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\q1
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\v 14 All my relatives and good friends have left me.
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\q1
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\v 15 The people who were guests in my house have forgotten me,
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\q2 and my female servants consider that I am a foreigner whom they do not know.
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\q1
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\v 16 When I summon my servants, they do not answer;
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\q2 When I plead with them to come to help me, they do not come.
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\v 17 My breath smells very bad to my wife so she stays away from me,
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\q2 and my brothers detest me.
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\v 18 Even young children despise me;
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\q2 when I stand up to talk to them, they laugh at me.
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\q1
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\v 19 My dearest friends detest me,
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\q2 and those whom I love very much have turned against me.
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\q1
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\v 20 My body is only skin and bones;
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\q2 I am barely alive.
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\q1
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\v 21 I plead with you, my three friends, pity me
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\q2 because God has struck me very hard.
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\q1
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\v 22 Why do you cause me to suffer, also? Do you think you are God?
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\q2 Why do you never get enough of accusing me of doing wrong?
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\q1
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\v 23 I wish that someone would take these words of mine
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\q2 and write them permanently in a book in order that people can read them.
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\q1
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\v 24 Or else, I wish that someone would carve my words on a rock with a chisel
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\q2 in order that they would last forever.
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\q1
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\v 25 But I know that the one who vindicates me in court is alive,
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\q2 and that some day he will stand here on the earth and make the final decision about whether I deserve to be punished.
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\q1
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\v 26 And even after diseases have destroyed my body,
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\q2 still, in my body I will see God.
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\q1
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\v 27 I will see him myself;
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\q2 I will see him with my own eyes!
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\q2 My emotions overwhelm me as I think about that!
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\q1
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\v 28 If you three men say, 'This is how we will cause him to suffer!'
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\q2 and you say, 'He is the one who has caused his own troubles,'
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\q1
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\v 29 you should fear that God will punish you;
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\q1 he punishes those like you with whom he is angry;
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\q2 and when that happens, you will know that there is someone who judges people."
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