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\c 33
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\v 1 So now, Job, I beg you, hear my speech;
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\q listen to all my words.
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\q
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\v 2 See now, I have opened my mouth;
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\q my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
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\v 3 My words come from the uprightness of my heart;
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\q my lips speak pure knowledge.
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\q
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\v 4 The Spirit of God has made me;
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\q the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
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\q
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\v 5 If you can, answer me;
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\q set your words in order before me and stand up.
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\q
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\v 6 See, I am just as you are in God's sight;
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\q I also have been formed out of the clay.
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\v 7 See, terror of me will not make you afraid;
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\q neither will my pressure be heavy upon you.
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\v 8 You have certainly spoken in my hearing;
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\q I have heard the sound of your words saying,
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\v 9 'I am clean and without transgression;
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\q I am innocent, and there is no sin in me.
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\v 10 See, God finds opportunities to attack me;
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\q he regards me as his enemy.
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\v 11 He puts my feet in stocks;
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\q he watches all my paths.'
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\v 12 See, in this you are not right—I will answer you,
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\q for God is greater than man.
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\v 13 Why do you struggle against him?
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\q He does not account for any of his doings.
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\v 14 For God speaks once—
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\q yes, twice, though man does not notice it.
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\v 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
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\q when deep sleep falls upon men,
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\q in slumber on the bed—
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\v 16 then God opens the ears of men,
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\q and frightens them with threats,
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\v 17 in order to pull man back from his sinful purposes,
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\q and keep pride from him.
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\v 18 God keeps man's life back from the pit,
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\q his life from crossing over to death.
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\v 19 Man is punished also with pain on his bed,
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\q with constant agony in his bones,
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\v 20 so that his life abhors food,
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\q and his soul abhors delicacies.
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\v 21 His flesh is consumed away so that it cannot be seen;
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\q his bones, once not seen, now stick out.
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\v 22 Indeed, his soul draws close to the pit,
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\q his life to those who wish to destroy it.
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\v 23 But if there is an angel who can be a mediator for him,
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\q a mediator, one from among the thousands of angels,
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\q to show him what is right to do,
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\v 24 and if the angel is kind to him and says to God,
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\q 'Save this person from going down to the pit;
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\q I have found a ransom for him,'
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\v 25 then his flesh will become fresher than a child's;
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\q he will return to the days of his youthful strength.
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\v 26 He will pray to God, and God will be kind to him,
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\q so that he sees God's face with joy.
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\q God will give the person his triumph.
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\v 27 Then that person will sing in front of other people and say,
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\q 'I sinned and perverted that which was right,
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\q but my sin was not punished.
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\v 28 God has rescued my soul from going down into the pit;
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\q my life will continue to see light.'
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\v 29 See, God does all these things with a person,
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\q twice, yes, even three times,
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\v 30 to bring his soul back from the pit,
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\q so that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
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\v 31 Pay attention, Job, and listen to me;
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\q be silent and I will speak.
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\v 32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
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\q speak, for I wish to prove that you are in the right.
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\v 33 If not, then listen to me;
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\q remain silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
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