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-\v 3 Previously I thought that surely it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities,
+\v 3 Previously I thought that surely it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities
 \q2 and that it was those who do what is wrong who would experience disasters.
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 \v 4 God certainly sees everything that I do,
@@ -2828,16 +2828,16 @@
 
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-\v 7 If it were true that I had turned away from walking on the right paths,
-\q2 or that I had seen wrong things to do and then did them,
+\v 7 If it were true that I had turned away from walking on the right paths
+\q2 or that I had seen wrong things to do and then did them
 \q2 or that my hands were stained because I had sinned,
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-\v 8 then I hope that when I plant seeds, someone else will harvest the crops and eat them,
-\q2 and that others will uproot the crops that I have planted.
+\v 8 then I hope that when I plant seeds, someone else will harvest the crops and eat them
+\q2 and others will uproot the crops that I have planted.
 
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-\v 9 If it is true that I have been attracted by some other man's wife,
+\v 9 If it is true that I have been attracted by some other man's wife
 \q2 or that I have hidden myself and waited outside the door to her house,
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 \v 10 I hope another man will sleep with my own wife
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-\v 16-18 From the time I was young I have taken care of orphans;
-All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
-\q1 So if it is true that I ate all my food myself and did not share some of it with orphans,
-\q2 or that I refused to give poor people the things that they wanted,
+\v 16-18 From the time I was young I have taken care of orphans; all my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
+\q1 So if it is true that I ate all my food myself and did not share some of it with orphans
+\q2 or that I refused to give poor people the things that they wanted
 \q2 or that I caused widows to live in despair, then you do to me whatever you must do to me.
 
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-\v 19 If I had seen people die from cold because they had no clothes,
-\q2 or that I had seen poor people who did not have clothes to keep them warm,
+\v 19 If I had seen people die from cold because they had no clothes
+\q2 or I had seen poor people who did not have clothes to keep them warm,
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 \v 20 and they were not able to become warm from clothes made from the wool of my sheep
 \q2 and they thanked me for it,
@@ -2886,25 +2885,25 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
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 \v 22 For if those things were true about me, I hope that my shoulder blade would be torn out
-\q2 and my arm be torn from my shoulder.
+\q2 and my arm would be torn from my shoulder.
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 \v 23 I always feared that God would cause me to experience a great disaster if I did any of those evil things,
 \q2 and I would not have been able to endure the powerful things that he would do to punish me.
 
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-\v 24 If it is true that I trusted in my gold,
+\v 24 If it is true that I trusted in my gold
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 \v 25 or that I rejoiced because I had acquired many things
-\q2 and had become very rich,
+\q2 and had become very rich
 
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-\v 26 or that I looked at the sun when it was shining,
+\v 26 or that I looked at the sun when it was shining
 \q2 or that I looked at the beautiful moon,
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 \v 27 and I had been tempted to worship them
-\q2 by kissing my hand to honor them,
+\q2 by kissing my hand to honor them—
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 \v 28 those things also would be sins for which the judges would say that I must be punished
 \q2 because I would have been rejecting God by doing those things.
@@ -2918,7 +2917,7 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
 
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-\v 31-32 No one can truthfully that I did not welcome travelers to stay in my house,
+\v 31-32 No one can truthfully say that I did not welcome travelers to stay in my house
 \q2 or that I did not open my doors to them, but that I forced them to sleep in the streets!
 \q2 All the men who work for me certainly know that I have given food to anyone who needed it!
 
@@ -2928,30 +2927,30 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
 \q2 but I have never done that;
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 \v 34 and I never remained silent and refused to go outside
-\q2 because I was afraid of what people would say about me,
+\q2 because I was afraid of what people would say about me
 \q2 and that they would hate me.
 
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 \v 35 I wish that there was someone who would hear what I am saying!
-\q2 I solemnly declare that all that I have said is true.
-\q1 I wish that those who oppose me would write down on a scroll the evil things that they say that I did.
+\q2 I solemnly declare that all I have said is true.
+\q1 I wish that those who oppose me would write down on a scroll the evil things that they say I did.
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-\v 36 If they did that, I would wear that scroll on my shoulder or on top of my head, in order that everyone could see it.
+\v 36 If they did that, I would wear that scroll on my shoulder or on top of my head so that everyone could see it.
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 \v 37 I would tell God everything that I have done,
 \q2 and I would approach him like a ruler would, without being afraid.
 
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-\v 38 If it is true that I have stolen land,
-\q2 so that its furrows were like someone who shouted out to accuse me;
+\v 38 If it is true that I have stolen land
+\q2 so that its furrows were like someone who shouted out to accuse me
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 \v 39 or that I have eaten the crops that grew in someone else's fields
-\q2 without paying for those crops,
-\q2 so that the farmers who grew those crops died from hunger;
+\q2 without paying for those crops
+\q2 so that the farmers who grew those crops died from hunger,
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-\v 40 then I wish that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat,
+\v 40 then I wish that thorns would grow in my fields instead of wheat
 \q2 and that bad weeds would grow instead of barley!"
 \q1 That is the end of what Job said to his three friends.
 
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 \v 1 Then those three men stopped replying to Job because they could not convince Job that he had done anything wrong.
-\v 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel, a descendant of Buz, from the clan of Ram, became very angry at Job. He was angry because Job continued to claim that he was innocent, and that God had been wrong to punish him.
+\v 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel, a descendant of Buz, from the clan of Ram, became very angry at Job. He was angry because Job continued to claim that he was innocent and that God had been wrong to punish him.
 
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 \v 3 He was also angry with Job's three friends because they had declared that Job must have done many things that were wrong, but they could not convince him.
@@ -2991,20 +2990,20 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
 \q2 I wanted to hear the wise things that you would say.
 \q2 I waited while you thought carefully about what you should say.
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-\v 12 I paid attention carefully,
+\v 12 I paid careful attention,
 \q2 but surprisingly, none of you was able to prove that what Job said was wrong.
 
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 \v 13 So do not say to yourselves, 'We have discovered what is wise!'
-\q2 It is God who must refute Job because you three have not been able to do that.
+\q2 It is God who must refute Job, because you three have not been able to do that.
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 \v 14 Job was replying to you, not to me,
 \q2 so I will not reply to him by saying what you three have said.
 
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-\v 15 I tell myself this: These three men are confused because they have nothing more to say to Job;
+\v 15 I tell myself this: These three men are confused because they have no more answer to Job;
 \q2 they have nothing more to say to him.
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 \v 16 But because you do not speak, I certainly will not wait any longer;
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-\v 20 I must speak in order that I can rest from trying to hold in my words;
+\v 20 I must speak so that I can rest from trying to hold in my words;
 \q2 I must say something to reply to you all.
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 \v 21 I will speak fairly, not favoring any of you,
@@ -3094,7 +3093,7 @@ All my life I have never given the widowed mothers a reason to lose hope.
 \v 16 He reveals things to us in those times;
 \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
+\v 17 He tells us those things so that we may stop doing evil deeds
 \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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-\v 23 Yet sometimes an angel may come to one of us,
-\q2 one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God,
+\v 23 Yet sometimes an angel may come to one of us—
+\q2 one of the thousands of angels who come to intervene between us and God—
 \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,
-\q2 'Please release that person,
+\q2 'Please release that person
 \q1 so that he does not descend to the place where dead people are!
 \q2 Do that because I have found a way for you to keep him from dying!
 
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 \v 26 If that happens, that person will pray to God, and God will accept him;
 \q2 he will enter God's presence joyfully,
-\q2 and then he will tell others how God saved him from dying.
+\q2 then he will tell others how God saved him from dying.
 
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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,
-\q2 in order that we can continue to enjoy being alive.
+\q2 so that we can continue to enjoy being alive.
 
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