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\c 31
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 I have made a covenant with my eyes;
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\q how then should I look with desire on a virgin?
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\q
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\v 2 For what is the portion from God above,
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\q the inheritance from the Almighty on high?
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\q
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\v 3 I used to think that calamity is for unrighteous people,
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\q and that disaster is for doers of wickedness.
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\q
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\v 4 Does not God see my ways
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\q and count all my steps?
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\q
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\v 5 If I have walked with falsehood,
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\q if my foot has hurried to deceit,
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\q
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\v 6 (let me be weighed in an even balance
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\q so that God will know my integrity)
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\q
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\v 7 if my step has turned out of the right way,
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\q if my heart has walked after my eyes,
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\q if any spot of impurity has clung to my hands,
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\q
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\v 8 then let me sow and let another eat;
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\q indeed, let the harvest be uprooted out of my field.
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\b
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\q
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\v 9 If my heart has been attracted to another woman,
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\q if I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door for his wife,
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\q
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\v 10 then let my wife grind grain for another man,
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\q and let other men sleep with her.
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\v 11 For that would be a terrible crime;
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\q indeed, it would be a crime to be punished by judges.
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\q
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\v 12 For that is a fire that consumes everything for sheol
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\q and that would burn up all my harvest.
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\q
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\v 13 If I ignored the plea for justice from my male or female servant
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\q when they argued with me,
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\q
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\v 14 what then would I do when God rises up to accuse me?
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\q When he comes to judge me, how would I answer him?
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\q
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\v 15 Did the one who made me in the womb not make them also?
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\q Did not the same one mold us all in the womb?
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\v 16 If I have withheld poor people from their desire,
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\q or if I have caused the eyes of the widow to grow dim from crying,
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\q
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\v 17 or if I have eaten my morsel alone
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\q and not allowed those without fathers to eat it also—
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\q
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\v 18 (instead, from my youth the orphan grew up with me as with a father,
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\q and I have guided his mother, a widow, from my own mother’s womb)—
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\v 19 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
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\q or if I have seen that a needy man had no clothing;
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\q
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\v 20 if his heart has not blessed me
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\q because he has not been warmed with the wool of my sheep,
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\q
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\v 21 if I have lifted up my hand against fatherless people
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\q because I saw my support in the city gate—
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\q
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\v 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,
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\q and let my arm be broken from its joint.
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\q
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\v 23 For calamity from God would be a terror to me;
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\q because of his majesty, I could do none of these things.
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\b
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\v 24 If I have made gold my hope,
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\q and if I have said to fine gold, ‘You are what I am confident in';
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\q
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\v 25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,
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\q because my hand had gotten many possessions;
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\v 26 if I have seen the sun when it shone,
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\q or the moon walking in its brightness,
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\q
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\v 27 and if my heart has been secretly attracted,
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\q so that my mouth has kissed my hand in worship of them—
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\q
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\v 28 this also would be a crime to be punished by judges,
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\q for I would have denied the God who is above.
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\v 29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of anyone who hated me
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\q or congratulated myself when disaster overtook him—
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\v 30 (indeed, I have not suffered my mouth to sin
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\q by asking for his life with a curse)—
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\q
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\v 31 if the men of my tent have never said,
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\q ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with Job’s food?’—
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\v 32 (the foreigner never had to stay in the city square;
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\q instead, I always opened my doors to the traveler)—
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\q
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\v 33 if, like mankind, I have hidden my sins
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\q by hiding my guilt inside my tunic
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\q
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\v 34 because I feared the great multitude,
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\q because the contempt of families terrified me,
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\q so that I kept silent and did not go outside of my house....
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\q
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\v 35 Oh, if only I had someone to hear me!
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\q See, here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me!
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\q If only I had the indictment that my opponent has written!
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\q
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\v 36 Surely I would carry it openly on my shoulder;
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\q I would put it on like a crown.
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\q
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\v 37 I would declare to him an accounting for my steps;
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\q as a confident prince I would go up to him.
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\q
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\v 38 If my land ever cries out against me,
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\q and its furrows weep together,
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\q
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\v 39 if I have eaten its harvest without paying for it
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\q or have caused its owners to lose their lives,
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\q
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\v 40 then let thorns grow instead of wheat
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\q and weeds instead of barley.”
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\b
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\p The words of Job are finished.
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