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\c 5
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\q1
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\v 1 "Job, no one will stop you from calling out for someone to help you,
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\q2 but I am certain that no angel will come to you!
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\q1
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\v 2 Foolish people die because they are resentful;
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\q2 people whom others easily deceive—these people die because they envy others.
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\v 3 I have seen foolish people who seemed to be successful,
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\q2 but suddenly they experienced disaster because I cursed their home.
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\v 4 Their sons are never safe;
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\q2 they always lose to their opponents in court,
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\q2 because there is no one to defend them.
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\v 5 Hungry people steal the crops that foolish people harvest;
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\q2 they even steal the crops that grow among thorns,
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\q2 and greedy people take away the wealth of those foolish people.
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\v 6 But it is not the farmland that makes bad things happen;
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\q2 troubles do not grow up from the ground like plants.
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\v 7 People make trouble for themselves from the time that they are born;
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\q2 this is as certain as the fact that sparks shoot up from a fire.
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\v 8 If I were suffering like you are, I would ask God for help
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\q2 and tell him what I am complaining about.
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\v 9 He does great things, things that we cannot understand;
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\q2 we cannot even count the marvelous things that he does.
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\v 10 He sends rain on the ground;
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\q2 he makes it rain on our fields.
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\v 11 He defends those who are humble,
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\q2 and puts those who mourn into places where they are safe.
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\v 12 He causes crafty people to not be able to do what they plan to do,
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\q2 with the result that they achieve nothing.
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\v 13 The people who think they are wise—he makes their own traps catch them;
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\q2 the result is that they do not succeed.
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\v 14 It is as though even in the daytime they were living in darkness
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\q2 and were groping around trying to find the road at noontime like people do at night.
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\v 15 But God saves helpless people from the wicked who say evil things about them;
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\q2 he saves poor people from powerful people harming them.
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\v 16 So poor people confidently expect that good things will happen to them;
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\q2 but God stops wicked people from saying evil things.
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\v 17 But those whom God corrects are fortunate;
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\q2 so do not despise it when God, who can do anything, disciplines you.
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\v 18 He wounds people, but then he puts bandages on those wounds;
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\q2 he hurts people, but he also heals them.
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\v 19 He will rescue you many times from your troubles,
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\q2 with the result that nothing evil will happen to you.
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\v 20 When there is little food to eat, he will not allow you to die,
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\q2 and when there is a war, your enemies will not kill you.
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\v 21 God will protect you when people say false, evil things about you;
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\q2 you will not be afraid when many things around you perish.
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\v 22 You will be able to laugh when that happens and when there is nothing to eat,
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\q2 and you will not be afraid of wild animals.
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\v 23 You will not worry about having big rocks in your fields that will make plowing difficult,
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\q2 and you will not worry that wild animals might attack you.
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\v 24 You will know that things will go well for you in your home;
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\q2 when you look at your livestock, you will see that they are all there.
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\v 25 You will be certain that you will have many descendants,
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\q2 who will be as numerous as blades of grass.
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\v 26 You will become very old before you die,
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\q2 like sheaves of grain continue to grow until it is time to harvest and thresh them.
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\v 27 My friends and I have thought carefully about these things, and we know that they are true,
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\q2 so pay attention to what I have said!"
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