Ch 19-21 edits/corrections

18-JOB.usfm

@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 7 I cry out, 'People are murdering me!',
+\v 7 I cry out, 'People are murdering me!'
 \q2 but no one answers me.
 \q1 I call out loudly, but there is no one, not even God, who acts fairly toward me.
 \q1
@@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 13 God has caused my brothers to abandon me,
-\q2 and for all those who know me to act like strangers to me.
+\q2 and all those who know me act like strangers to me.
 \q1
 \v 14 All my relatives and good friends have left me.
 
@@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 17 My breath smells very bad to my wife so she stays away from me,
+\v 17 My breath smells very bad to my wife, so she stays away from me,
 \q2 and my brothers detest me.
 \q1
 \v 18 Even young children despise me;
@@ -1741,23 +1741,23 @@
 \v 20 My body is only skin and bones;
 \q2 I am barely alive.
 \q1
-\v 21 I plead with you, my three friends, pity me
+\v 21 I plead with you, my three friends, pity me,
 \q2 because God has struck me very hard.
 \q1
-\v 22 Why do you cause me to suffer, also? Do you think you are God?
+\v 22 Why do you also cause me to suffer? Do you think you are God?
 \q2 Why do you never get enough of accusing me of doing wrong?
 
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 23 I wish that someone would take these words of mine
-\q2 and write them permanently in a book in order that people can read them.
+\q2 and write them permanently in a book so that people can read them.
 \q1
 \v 24 Or else, I wish that someone would carve my words on a rock with a chisel
-\q2 in order that they would last forever.
+\q2 so that they would last forever.
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 25 But I know that the one who vindicates me in court is alive,
+\v 25 But I know that the one who vindicates me in court is alive
 \q2 and that he will stand here on the earth and make the final decision about whether I deserve to be punished.
 \q1
 \v 26 And even after diseases have destroyed my body,
@@ -1792,12 +1792,12 @@
 \v 4 Do you not know that from long ago,
 \q2 ever since God first put people on the earth,
 \q1
-\v 5 that wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time,
+\v 5 that wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time
 \q2 and that people who refuse to honor God are happy only for a moment?
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 6 Although their reputations reach up to the sky,
+\v 6 Although their reputations reach up to the sky
 \q2 and their fame goes up as high as the clouds,
 \q1
 \v 7 they will disappear forever, like their own excrement,
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@
 \q1
 \v 10 Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that they stole from poor people.
 \q1
-\v 11 The bodies of the wicked were once young and strong,
+\v 11 The bodies of wicked people were once young and strong,
 \q2 but they will die and be buried in the ground.
 
 \s5
@@ -1826,13 +1826,13 @@
 \q1
 \v 13 and although they did not want to stop doing those things,
 \q1
-\v 14 those evil things will someday become like poison that they swallow,
+\v 14 those evil things will someday become like poison that they swallow
 \q2 or like the poison from snakes.
 
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 15 Wicked people pile up wealth for themselves, but they do not keep it forever,
-\q2 just like people do not keep down the food that they vomit.
+\q2 just as people do not keep down the food that they vomit.
 \q1 God takes their wealth from them.
 \q1
 \v 16 Doing evil deeds is like swallowing snake poison;
@@ -1840,12 +1840,12 @@
 
 \s5
 \q1
-\v 17 The wicked will not remain alive to see the abundant blessings from God,
+\v 17 Wicked people will not remain alive to see the abundant blessings from God,
 \q2 which are like a stream that flows.
 \q1
-\v 18 They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor;
+\v 18 They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from poor people;
 \q2 they will not be able to continue to enjoy those things.
-\q1 They will not remain happy because of what they got from their business
+\q1 They will not remain happy because of what they got from their business,
 \q1
 \v 19 because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them,
 \q2 and they took other people's houses by cheating them.
@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@
 \v 20 They were always greedy and never satisfied.
 \q2 So when they ate, they ate so much that they never saved anything that they enjoyed.
 \q1
-\v 21 When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over because they had greedily eaten it all;
+\v 21 When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over, because they had greedily eaten it all;
 \q2 but now their prosperity will end.
 \q1
 \v 22 When they are still very wealthy,
@@ -1917,7 +1917,7 @@
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 7 But allow me to ask this: 'Why do wicked people continue to live,
-\q2 and become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?'
+\q2 become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?'
 \q1
 \v 8 They see their children around them,
 \q2 and they watch them while they grow up and start to live in their own houses.
@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@
 \v 16 Wicked people think that they have become prosperous because of what they have done,
 \q2 but I do not want to have anything to do with their thinking.
 \q1
-\v 17 How often does it happen that wicked people die,
+\v 17 How often does it happen that wicked people die
 \q2 without experiencing disasters?
 \q2 Does God ever punish them because he is angry with them?
 \q1
@@ -1962,9 +1962,9 @@
 \s5
 \q1
 \v 19 You say, 'When people have committed sins,
-\q2 God waits and punishes their children because of those sins;'
+\q2 God waits and punishes their children because of those sins.'
 \q1 I say that God should punish those who sin, not their children,
-\q2 in order that the sinners may know that it is because of their own sins that they are being punished.
+\q2 so that the sinners may know that it is because of their own sins that they are being punished.
 \q1
 \v 20 I hope that wicked people will live to experience God destroying them,
 \q2 that they will experience Almighty God punishing them.