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\c 23
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\p
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\v 1 Then Job replied and said this:
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\q1
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\v 2 "Today I am again complaining bitterly to God;
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\q2 I continue to groan, but I suffer even more.
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\q1
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\v 3 I wish that I knew where I could meet with him
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\q2 so that I could go to the place where he lives.
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\q1
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\v 4 If I could do that, I would tell him why I know that I am innocent;
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\q2 I would tell him many reasons for that.
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\q1
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\v 5 Then I would find out and understand what he would reply to me.
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\q1
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\v 6 Would he use his great power to argue with me?
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\q2 No, he would listen to me carefully.
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\q1
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\v 7 I am an honest man, so I would be able to discuss things with him fairly,
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\q2 and then he would declare that I am innocent, and he would not trouble me again.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 8 However, I have gone to the east, and he is not there;
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\q2 I have gone to the west, but I have not found him there.
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\q1
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\v 9 I have gone north and I have gone south,
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\q2 but I have not seen him anywhere for he keeps himself from me.
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\q1
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\v 10 he knows how I have conducted my life;
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\q2 when he has finished testing me, he will see that I am as pure as gold whose impurities have all been burned out.
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\q1
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\v 11 I have faithfully walked on the road that he showed me;
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\q2 I have not turned away from obeying him.
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\q1
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\v 12 I have always obeyed what he commanded;
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\q2 I have hidden away in my inner being the words that he has spoken.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 13 He never changes. There is no one who can stop him from doing what he desires.
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\q2 Whatever he wants to do, he does.
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\q1
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\v 14 He will finish doing the things that he has planned for me,
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\q2 and I am sure that he has thought about doing many things for me.
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\q1
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\v 15 So I am terrified when I am in front of him;
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\q2 when I think about what he can do, I am very afraid.
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\q1
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\v 16 Almighty God has made me very afraid.
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\q1
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\v 17 It is as though there were only thick darkness in front of me,
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\q2 but it is God who destroys me, not the darkness."
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