Several changes on Friday

18-JOB/17.usfm

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 11 My days are past; my plans are over.
+\v 11 My days are past; my plans are shattered,
-\q As for the wishes of my heart ... 
+\q and so are the desires of my heart.  
 \f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa My days are past, as are my plans. The wishes of my heart are finished \fqa* or \fqa ... the strings of my heart have been broken \fqa* . Others have \fqa My days are past; my plans are over, as are the wishes of my heart \fqa* \f*
 \q
 \v 12 These people, these mockers, change the night into day;

18-JOB/19.usfm

@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@
 \v 26 after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed,
 \q then in my flesh I will see God.
 \q
-\v 27 I will see him myself;
+\v 27 I will see him with my own eyes my eyes—I, and not someone else. 
-\q my eyes—and not someone else—will see him.
+\q My heart fail within me.
-\q My kidneys fail within me
 
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18-JOB/23.usfm

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 \q I have kept to his way and turned not aside.
 \q
 \v 12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips;
-\q I have treasured up in my heart the words of his mouth.
+\q I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
 
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18-JOB/31.usfm

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
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 \q
 \v 7 If my step has turned out of the right way,
-\q if my heart has walked after my eyes,
+\q if my heart has gone after my eyes,
-\q if any spot of impurity has clung to my hands,
+\q if any spot has defiled my hands,
 \q
 \v 8 then let me sow and let another eat;
 \q indeed, let the harvest be uprooted out of my field.
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 9 If my heart has been attracted to another woman,
+\v 9 If my heart has been deceived by a woman,
-\q if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door for his wife,
+\q if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
 \q
-\v 10 then let my wife grind grain for another man,
+\v 10 then let my wife grind grain for another,
-\q and let other men sleep with her.
+\q and let others bow down on her.
 
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18-JOB/33.usfm

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 \v 2 See now, I have opened my mouth;
 \q my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
 \q
-\v 3 My words will speak the uprightness of my heart;
+\v 3 My words come from the uprightness of my heart;
-\q what my lips know, they will speak sincerely.
+\q my lips speak pure knowledge.
 
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24-JER/23.usfm

@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@
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 \v 37 This is what you will say to the prophet, 'What answer did Yahweh give you? or 'What did Yahweh say?' 
 \v 38 But if you say, 'The burden of Yahweh', this is what Yahweh says: 
-\q 'Because you have said these words, 'The burden of Yahweh,' when I sent you, saying, 'You will not say, "The burden of Yahweh."'
+\q 'Because you have said these words, 'The burden of Yahweh,' when I sent to you, saying, 'You will not say, "The burden of Yahweh,"'
-\v 39 Therefore, see, I am about to pick you up and throw you away from me, along with the city that I gave you and your ancestors.
+\v 39 therefore, behold, I am about to pick you up and throw you away from me, along with the city that I gave you and your ancestors.
 \v 40 Then I will put everlasting shame and insult on you that will not be forgotten.'"
 
 

24-JER/51.usfm

@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@
 
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 \q
-\v 25 See, I am against you, you mountain, you who destroy other people—this is Yahweh's declaration—destroying all the earth.
+\v 25 See, I am against you, mountain of destruction—this is Yahweh's declaration—which destroys the whole earth.
-\q I will strike you with my hand and roll you down from the cliffs.
+\q I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the cliffs,
-\q Then I will make you a mountain burned completely through.
+\q and make you a burned-out mountain.
 \q
 \v 26 So they will not take from you any stone to construct a building's corner or foundation;
 \q for you will become an everlasting devastation—this is Yahweh's declaration.
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@
 
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-\v 34 Jerusalem says, 'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me. He has drained me dry
+\v 34 'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has driven me into confusion.
-\q and has made me into an empty pot. He has swallowed me as a monster.
+\q and has made me an empty pot; like a monster he has swallowed me;
-\q He filled his stomach with my good food. He has rinsed me out.'
+\q he filled his stomach with my delicious foods; he has rinsed me out.'
 \q
 \v 35 The inhabitants of Zion will say, 'May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon.'
 \q Jerusalem will say, 'May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea.'