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 \v 1 Then Eliphaz replied, saying this:
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 \v 2 "No one can be useful to God!
-\q2 People who are wise can be useful to themselves, but not to God.
+\q2 People who are wise can be useful to themselves but not to God.
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 \v 3 If you were righteous, that would not please Almighty God, would it?
 \q2 If you lived a perfect life, that would not help him, would it?
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 \v 4 Do you honor God, and is that why he punishes you?
-\q2 Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?
+\q2 Is that the reason he puts you on trial?
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 \v 5 No, it certainly must be because you are extremely wicked.
 \q2 It must be that no one can count the evil things that you have done!
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 \q2 and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.
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 \v 8 Because you were very powerful, you must have taken over all the people's land,
-\q2 and then you began to live on that land, even though others honored you very much.
+\q2 and then you began to live on that land even though others honored you very much.
 
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 \q2 And why do you say, 'Dark clouds keep him from seeing us, so he cannot judge us'?
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 \v 14 Do you think that while he walks on the dome that covers the sky,
-\q2 where there are thick clouds around him, he cannot see what we do?'
+\q2 where there are thick clouds around him, he cannot see what we do?
 
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@@ -2083,14 +2083,14 @@
 \q2 that evil people have done for many years?
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 \v 16 They suddenly died while they were still young;
-\q2 they disappeared like everything disappears when there is a flood .
+\q2 they disappeared like everything disappears when there is a flood.
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 \v 17 They kept saying to God, 'Leave us alone,' 'Allow us to be alone,'
 \q2 and they also said defiantly, 'Almighty God can do nothing to harm us!'
 
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-\v 18 Yet it was God who filled their houses with good things;
+\v 18 Yet it was God who filled their houses with good things,
 \q2 so I cannot agree at all to follow what the wicked plan.
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 \v 19 When righteous people see that God punishes wicked people, they are glad,
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 \q2 I have gone to the west, but I have not found him there.
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 \v 9 I have gone north and I have gone south,
-\q2 but I have not seen him anywhere for he keeps himself from me.
+\q2 but I have not seen him anywhere, for he keeps himself from me.
 
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 \v 16 Almighty God has made me very afraid.
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-\v 17 The thick darkness in front of me has not make me silent,
+\v 17 The thick darkness in front of me has not made me silent;
 \q2 even that terrible darkness that covers my face has not kept me from speaking."
 
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-\v 2 Some evil people remove the boundary markers of other people's land, in order to take their land;
+\v 2 Some evil people remove the boundary markers of other people's land in order to take their land;
 \q2 they seize other people's sheep and put them in their own pastures.
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 \v 3 Some take away the donkeys that belong to orphans,
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-\v 5 The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert plain
+\v 5 The result is that poor people must search for food in the desert plain
 \q2 like wild donkeys do.
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-\v 6 The poor people harvest leftover grain in other people's fields,
+\v 6 The poor people harvest leftover grain in other people's fields
 \q2 and gather leftover grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
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-\v 7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies,
+\v 7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies—
 \q2 nothing to keep them warm.
 
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 \q2 so they huddle under the rock ledges to protect themselves from the rain.
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 \v 9 Some evil men snatch poor, fatherless infants away from their mothers;
-\q2 they say 'I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.'
+\q2 they say, 'I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.'
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 \v 10 But the poor people walk around with no clothes on;
 \q2 they are hungry while they are working to carry other people's bundles of grain to the places where their grain will be threshed.
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 \q2 they do not walk on roads that are lit.
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 \v 14 Murderers steal things during the night,
-\q2 and then they rise before dawn in order that they may go out again and kill poor and needy people.
+\q2 and then they rise before dawn so that they may go out again and kill poor and needy people.
 
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 \q2 wicked people will be destroyed like trees that are cut down,
 \q2 and maggots will eat their corpses.
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-\v 21 The wicked mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children who would have grown up to take care of them;
-\q2 the wicked they never help widows.
+\v 21 Wicked people mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children who would have grown up to take care of them;
+\q2 wicked people never help widows.
 
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