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-\v 1 In the land named Uz, there was a man named Job. He obeyed God and always avoided doing evil things.
+\v 1 In the land called Uz, there was a man named Job. He obeyed God and always avoided doing evil things.
 \v 2 He had seven sons and three daughters.
-\v 3 He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand oxen, and five hundred donkeys. He also had many servants. This was the man who was the richest in all the area east of the Jordan River.
+\v 3 He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand oxen, and five hundred donkeys. He also had many servants. This was the man who was the richest man in all the area east of the Jordan River.
 
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-\v 4 Job's sons often held feasts in their houses. Whenever each one made a feast, he would invite all his brothers and sisters to come and eat together.
+\v 4 Job's sons often held feasts in their houses. Whenever each one made a feast, he would invite all of his brothers and sisters to come and eat together.
 \v 5 After each celebration, Job would summon them. He would ask Yahweh to purify them from any action they might have committed during their feasting that would make them unacceptable to him. He would get up early in the morning, kill animals, and burn them on the altar as sacrifices, one for each of his children. For Job always said, "Perhaps my children have sinned and said something evil about God in their hearts."
 
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-\v 6 One day, the angels came and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came, too.
+\v 6 One day, the angels came and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan also came.
 \v 7 Yahweh asked Satan, "Where have you just come from?"
 \p Satan replied, "I have come from the earth, where I been traveling back and forth to see what is happening."
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 \v 13 One day after that, Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the home of their oldest brother.
 \v 14 While they were doing that, a messenger arrived at Job's home and said to him, "While your oxen were plowing the fields and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
-\v 15 a group of men from the people of Sheba came and attacked us. They killed all your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who has escaped to come and tell you what happened."
+\v 15 a group of men from the people of Sheba came and attacked us. They killed all of your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who has escaped to come and tell you what happened."
 
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 \q1 and it is Yahweh who has taken it all away.
 \q1 But we must always praise Yahweh!"
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-\v 22 So in spite of all the things that happened to Job, he did speak not like a foolish man—he did not sin by saying that what God had done was wrong.
+\v 22 So in spite of all the things that happened to Job, he did not speak like a foolish man—he did not sin by saying that what God had done was wrong.
 
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-\v 3 Yahweh asked Satan, "You have you noticed my servant Job, who worships me, have you not?
+\v 3 Yahweh asked Satan, "Have you noticed my servant Job, who worships me?
 \p He continues to honor me; he is very exceptional, for he lives in a way that is more right than anyone else on the earth. He does this even though you persuaded me to attack him for no reason."
 
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-\v 9 His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to be loyal to God? You should curse God, and then go ahead and die."
+\v 9 His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to be loyal to God? You should curse God and then go ahead and die."
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 \v 10 But Job replied, "You talk like people talk who do not know God. We should not only accept the good things that God does for us. We should also accept the bad things." So in spite of all these things that happened to Job, he did not offend God by saying anything against him.
 
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 \v 4 I wish that the day when I was born could have been dark.
-\q2 I wish that God who is in heaven would forget about that day,
+\q2 I wish that God who is in heaven would forget about that day
 \q2 and that the sun would not have shone on it.
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-\v 5 I wish that thick darkness would have filled that day,
+\v 5 I wish that thick darkness would have filled that day
 \q1 and that death would have come over it like a shadow
-\q2 and blotted out all light,
+\q2 and blotted out all light
 \q2 and caused the people then to be terrified.
 
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 \q2 that it would never again appear as one night in any month,
 \q2 and that it would not be included in any calendar.
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-\v 7 I wish that no child would again be born on that date,
+\v 7 I wish that no child would again be born on that date
 \q2 and that no one would again be happy then.
 
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 \v 8 The magicians who are able to awaken the great sea monster—I want them to curse the day I was born.
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 \v 9 I wish that the stars that shone early in the morning on that day after I was born may not shine again.
-\q2 If only those stars had wished in vain for light to shine,
-\q2 and that they had not shone on that day.
+\q2 If only those stars had wished in vain for light to shine
+\q2 and that they had not shone on that day!
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 \v 10 That was an evil day because my mother's womb was not closed;
 \q2 instead, I was born, and I have now experienced all these terrible things.
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-\v 23 I do not understand why God keeps alive anyone whom he keeps from being happy,
+\v 23 I do not understand why God keeps alive anyone whom he keeps from being happy—
 \q2 anyone whom he forces to live in misery.
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 \v 24 I cry very much; as a result, I cannot eat;