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 \v 6 Hear now my own reasoning;
 \q listen to the pleading of my own lips.
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-\v 7 Will you speak unrighteously for God,
+\v 7 Will you speak unrighteousness for God,
 \q and will you talk deceitfully for him?
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 \v 8 Will you show him partiality?
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 \q that you would set me a fixed time to stay there and then call me to mind!
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 \v 14 If a man dies, will he live again?
-\q If so, I would wish to wait all my weary time there
+\q All my time of service there I will wait
 \q until my release should come.
 
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-\v 18 But even mountains fall and come to nothing;
+\v 18 But even mountains fall and crumble to nothing;
 \q even rocks are moved out of their place;
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 \v 19 the waters wear down the stones;
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-\v 20 You always defeat him, and he passes away;
+\v 20 You forever defeat him, and he passes away;
 \q you change his face and send him away to die.
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 \v 21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it;
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 \v 4 Indeed, you diminish respect for God;
-\q you obstruct devotion to him,
+\q you obstruct meditation before him,
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 \v 5 for your iniquity teaches your mouth;
-\q you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
+\q you choose to have the tongue of the crafty.
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 \v 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;
 \q indeed, your own lips testify against you.
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 \v 15 See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones;
 \q indeed, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
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-\v 16 how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt,
+\v 16 how much less clean is one who is abhorrent and corrupt,
 \q a man who drinks iniquity like water!
 
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 \v 22 He does not think that he will return out of darkness;
-\q the sword waits for him.
+\q he has been marked out for the sword.
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 \v 23 He goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?'
 \q He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
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 \q for uselessness will be his reward.
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 \v 32 It will happen before his time should come to die;
-\q his branch will not be green.
+\q his palm branch will not be green.
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 \v 33 He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine;
 \q he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
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 \v 1 Then Job answered and said,
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 \v 2 "I have heard many such things;
-\q you are all miserable comforters.
+\q you are all troublesome comforters.
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 \v 3 Will useless words ever have an end?
 \q What is wrong with you that you answer like this?
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 \q I have thrust my horn into the ground.
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 \v 16 My face is red with weeping,
-\q on my eyelids is utter darkness;
+\q on my eyelids is thick darkness;
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 \v 17 although there is no violence in my hands,
 \q and my prayer is pure.