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\c 12
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\p
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\v 1 Then Job said to his three friends,
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\q1
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\v 2 "There is no doubt that you are the people to whom everyone should listen,
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\q2 and that when you die, there will be no more wise people alive.
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\q1
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\v 3 But I have as much good sense as you do;
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\q2 I am no less wise than you are.
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\q2 Certainly everyone knows all that you have said.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 4 My friends all laugh at me now.
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\q2 Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he always answered me.
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\q1 I am righteous, and I honor Gody, but now everyone laughs at me.
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\q1
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\v 5 It is easy for people like you, who have no troubles, to laugh at people like me;
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\q2 you make us who are already suffering to have even more troubles.
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\q1
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\v 6 Meanwhile, bandits live peacefully,
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\q2 and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry;
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\q2 the god they worship is their own strength.
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\q1
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\v 7 But ask the wild animals what they know about God;
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\q2 if they could speak they would teach you.
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\q1 If you could ask the birds,
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\q2 they would tell you.
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\q1
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\v 8 If you could ask the creatures that crawl on the ground, or the fish in the sea,
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\q2 they would tell you about God.
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\q1
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\v 9 All of them certainly know that it is Yahweh who has made them by his hands.
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\q1
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\v 10 He directs the lives of all living creatures;
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\q2 he gives breath to all us humans to enable us to live.
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\q1
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\v 11 When we hear what people like you say,
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\q2 we think carefully about what they say to determine what is good and what is bad,
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\q2 like we taste food to know what is good and what is bad.
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\q1
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\v 12 Old people are usually very wise;
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\q2 because they have lived a long time, they understand much.
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\q1
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\v 13 And God is wise and very powerful;
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\q2 he has good sense and understands everything.
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\q1
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\v 14 If he tears something down, no one can rebuild it;
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\q2 if he puts someone in prison, no one can open the door to let that person to escape.
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\q1
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\v 15 When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up.
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\q2 When he causes a lot of rain to fall, the result is that there are floods.
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\q1
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\v 16 He is the one who is truly strong and wise;
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\q2 he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
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\q1
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\v 17 He sometimes causes the king's officials to lose their wisdom and grieve because of it'
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\q2 and he causes judges to become foolish.
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\q1
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\v 18 He takes from kings the ornaments that they wear
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\q2 and puts loincloths around their waists, causing them to become slaves.
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\v 19 He also makes priests grieve,
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\q2 and he takes power away from those who rule others.
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\v 20 He sometimes causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak,
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\q2 and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
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\v 21 He causes people to despise those who rule,
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\q2 and he causes those who are powerful to become weak.
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\v 22 He shows to us things that were secret,
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\q2 even things that were in the world of the dead.
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\q1
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\v 23 He causes some nations to become very great,
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\q2 and later he destroys them;
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\q1 he causes the territory of some nations to become much larger,
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\q2 and later he brings others to defeat them and take them prisoner.
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\v 24 He causes some rulers to become foolish,
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\q2 and then he causes them to wander around, lost, as if they were in the wilderness with no way out.
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\q1
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\v 25 It is as if theywere feeling around in the darkness, without any light;
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\q2 as if they were drunk, not knowing what they should do."
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