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18-JOB.usfm

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 \v 1 Finally, Job spoke, and he cursed the day that he was born.
 \v 2 He said,
 \q1
-\v 3 "I wish someone could destroy the day I was born, 
+\v 3 "I wish someone could destroy the day I was born
 \q2 and also the night when I was conceived.
 
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@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
 \v 29 Stop saying that I have sinned, and stop criticizing me unjustly!
 \q2 You should realize that I have not done things that are wrong.
 \q1
-\v 30 Do you think that I am lying?
+\v 30 Do you think I am lying?
 \q2 No, I am not lying, because I know what is right to say and what is wrong."
 
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@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@
 \v 2 We are like slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool of evening,
 \q2 and we are like workers who keep waiting to be paid.
 \q1
-\v 3 God has given to me many months in which I think that it is useless to remain alive;
+\v 3 God has given to me many months in which I think it is useless to remain alive;
 \q1 he has assigned to me many nights during which I feel miserable.
 
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@@ -550,8 +550,8 @@
 \q1 I will complain to God about what has happened to me
 \q2 because I am very angry.
 \q1
-\v 12 God, why do you watch closely what I am doing?
-\q2 Do you think that I am a dangerous sea monster?
+\v 12 God, why do you closely watch what I am doing?
+\q2 Do you think I am a dangerous sea monster?
 
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@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
 \v 14 But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid;
 \q2 you give me visions that terrify me;
 \q1
-\v 15 these things make me wish that someone would strangle me to death,
+\v 15 these things make me wish that someone would strangle me to death
 \q2 rather than for me to continue to be alive when I am only a bunch of bones.
 
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@@ -569,12 +569,11 @@
 \v 16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many more years.
 \q2 Allow me to be alone, because I will be alive for only a very short time.
 \q1
-\v 17 We human beings are not very important;
-\q2 so why do you pay so much attention to us ?
+\v 17 We human beings are not very important,
+\q2 so why do you pay so much attention to us?
 \q1
 \v 18 You look at us every morning to see what we are doing,
-\q2 and you
-examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
+\q2 and you examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
 
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@@ -664,7 +663,7 @@ examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
 
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 \q1
-\v 19 Truly, this is all the joy that evil people have:
+\v 19 Truly, this is all the joy that evil people have;
 \q2 other people just come and take their places.
 \q1
 \v 20 So, I tell you, Job, God will not reject you if you honor him,
@@ -673,8 +672,7 @@ examine us every moment to see if we are doing what is right.
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 \q1
 \v 21 He will always enable you to laugh
-\q2 and to
-shout joyfully.
+\q2 and to shout joyfully.
 \q1
 \v 22 But those who hate you will be very ashamed,
 \q2 and the homes of wicked people will disappear."
@@ -707,7 +705,7 @@ shout joyfully.
 \v 7 Some days he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise,
 \q2 and some nights he prevents the stars from shining.
 \q1
-\v 8 He alone stretched [stretches] out the sky;
+\v 8 He alone spreads out the sky;
 \q2 he alone puts his feet on the waves and stops their violence.
 \q1
 \v 9 He set in their places the groups of stars— the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the groups of stars in the southern sky.
@@ -747,7 +745,7 @@ shout joyfully.
 
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-\v 19 If I tried to wrestle with him, there would be no way to defeat him,
+\v 19 If I tried to wrestle with him, there would be no way to defeat him
 \q2 because he is stronger than I am.
 \q1 If I called him to appear in court,
 \q2 there is no one who could force him to go there.
@@ -769,7 +767,7 @@ shout joyfully.
 \v 24 God has allowed wicked people to control what happens in the world.
 \q2 It is as though he had caused judges to be blind, no longer able to judge fairly.
 \q1 If it is not God who has done that,
-\q2 who, then, has done it?
+\q2 who then has done it?
 
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@@ -801,7 +799,7 @@ shout joyfully.
 
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-\v 32 God is not a human, as I am,
+\v 32 God is not a human as I am,
 \q2 so there is no way that I could answer him to prove that I am innocent
 \q2 if we went together to have a trial in a courtroom.
 \q1
@@ -810,11 +808,11 @@ shout joyfully.
 
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-\v 34 I wish someone else could stop God from making me suffer,
+\v 34 I wish someone else could stop God from making me suffer
 \q2 and that he would not continue to terrify me.
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 \v 35 If he did that, I would declare that I am innocent without being afraid of him
-\q2 because I know within myself that I really have not done what is wrong like God thinks that I have.
+\q2 because I know within myself that I really have not done what is wrong as God thinks that I have.
 
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