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\c 21
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\v 1 Then Job answered and said,
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\q
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\v 2 "Listen carefully to my words,
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\q and let this be the comfort you offer to me.
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\q
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\v 3 Put up with me, and I also will speak;
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\q after I have spoken, mock on.
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\q
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\v 4 As for me, is my complaint to a person?
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\q Why should I not be impatient?
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\q
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\v 5 Look at me and be astonished,
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\q and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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\q
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\v 6 When I think about my sufferings, I am terrified,
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\q and trembling seizes my body.
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\q
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\v 7 Why do wicked people continue to live,
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\q become old, and grow mighty in power?
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\q
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\v 8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
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\q and their offspring are established before their eyes.
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\q
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\v 9 Their houses are safe from fear;
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\q neither is the rod of God on them.
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\q
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\v 10 Their bull breeds; it does not fail to do so;
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\q their cow gives birth and does not lose her calf prematurely.
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\q
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\v 11 They send out their little ones like a flock,
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\q and their children dance.
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\q
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\v 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp
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\q and rejoice with the music of the flute.
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\q
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\v 13 They spend their days in prosperity,
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\q and they go down quietly to Sheol.
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\q
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\v 14 They say to God, 'Depart from us
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\q for we do not wish any knowledge of your ways.
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\q
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\v 15 What is the Almighty, that we should worship him?
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\q What advantage would we get if we prayed to him?'
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\q
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\v 16 See, is not their prosperity in their own hands?
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\q I have nothing to do with the advice of wicked people.
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\q
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\v 17 How often is it that the lamp of wicked people is put out,
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\q or that their calamity comes upon them?
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\q How often does it happen that God distributes sorrows to them in his anger?
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\q
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\v 18 How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind
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\q or like chaff that the storm carries away?
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\q
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\v 19 You say, 'God lays up one's guilt for his children to pay.'
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\q Let him pay it himself, so that he might know his guilt.
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\v 20 Let his eyes see his own destruction,
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\q and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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\q
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\v 21 For what does he care about his family after him
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\q when the number of his months is cut off?
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\q
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\v 22 Can anyone teach God knowledge
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\q since he judges even those who are high?
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\v 23 One man dies in his full strength,
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\q being completely quiet and at ease.
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\v 24 His body is full of milk,
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\q and the marrow of his bones is moistened and in good health.
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\q
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\v 25 Another man dies in bitterness of soul,
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\q one who has never experienced anything good.
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\v 26 They lie down alike in the dust;
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\q the worms cover them both.
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\q
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\v 27 See, I know your thoughts,
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\q and the ways in which you wish to wrong me.
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\v 28 For you say, 'Where now is the house of the prince?
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\q Where is the tent in which the wicked man once lived?'
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\q
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\v 29 Have you never asked traveling people?
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\q Do you not know the evidence they can tell,
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\v 30 that the wicked man is kept from the day of calamity,
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and that he is led away from the day of wrath?
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\q
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\v 31 Who will condemn the wicked man's way to his face?
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\q Who will repay him for what he has done?
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\v 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave;
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\q men will keep watch over his tomb.
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\q
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\v 33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him;
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\q all people will follow after him,
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\q as there were innumerable people before him.
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\v 34 How then do you comfort me with nonsense,
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\q since in your answers there is nothing but falsehood?"
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