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\v 1 Then Job spoke again to Eliphaz:
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\q1
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\v 2 "If all my troubles and misery could be put on a scale and weighed,
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\q1
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\v 3 they would be heavier than all the sand along the ocean shores.
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\q2 That is why I spoke very rashly about the day that I was born.
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\v 4 It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows.
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\q2 It is as though those arrows have poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit.
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\q1 The things that God has done to me are like soldiers lined up to attack me.
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\q1
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\v 5 Just like a wild donkey does not complain by braying when it has plenty of grass to eat,
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\q2 and an ox does not complain by bellowing when it has food to eat,
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\q1 I would not complain if you were really helping me.
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\v 6 People complain when they must eat food that has no salt
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\q2 or food that is slimy and tasteless;
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\q1 that is what your words are like, Eliphaz.
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\v 7 I do not want to eat food like that,
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\q2 because it disgusts me,
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\q1 and I do not like what you have said to me.
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\v 8 I wish that God would do for me what I have asked of him:
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\v 9 I wish that he would crush me and let me die.
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\q2 I wish that he would reach out his hand and take away my life.
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\v 10 If he would do that, I would be comforted because I would know that in spite of the great pain that I have suffered,
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\q2 I have always obeyed what God, the Holy One, has commanded.
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\v 11 But now I do not have enough strength to endure all these things.
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\q2 And since I have nothing to hope for in the future,
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\q2 it is difficult for me to be patient now.
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\v 12 I am not strong like rocks are,
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\q2 and my body is not made of bronze.
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\v 13 So I am not able to help myself;
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\q2 I am not wise enough for that.
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\v 14 When a man has many troubles, his friends should be kind to him,
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\q2 even if he stops honoring Almighty God.
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\v 15 But you, my friends, are not dependable.
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\q2 You are like streams in the wilderness: They spill over their banks in the spring
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\v 16 when the melting ice and snow make them overflow,
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\v 17 but when the dry season comes, there is no water flowing in those streams,
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\q2 and the channels dry up.
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\v 18 The caravans of merchants turn off their road to search for water,
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\q2 but there is no water in those streambeds,
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\q2 so the merchants die in the desert.
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\v 19 The men in those caravans searched for some water
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\q2 because they were sure that they would find some.
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\v 20 But they did not find any,
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\q2 so they were very disappointed.
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\v 21 Similarly, you friends have not helped me at all!
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\q1 You have seen that terrible things have happened to me,
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\q2 and you are afraid that God might do similar things to you.
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\v 22 After I lost all my wealth, I did not ask any of you for money.
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\q2 I did not plead with any of you to spend some of your money to help me.
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\v 23 I never asked any of you to rescue me from my enemies,
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\q2 and I did not ask you to save me from those who oppressed me.
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\v 24 Answer me now, and then I will be quiet;
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\q2 tell me what wrong things I have done!
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\v 25 When people speak what is true, it can be painful for the listener to hear honest words.
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\q2 But what have all your arguments proven about me?
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\v 26 I am a man who has nothing to hope for,
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\q2 but you try to correct me, and you think what I say is as useless as the wind!
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\v 27 You do not sympathize with me at all for the things
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that I am suffering.
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\q2 You will do anything to get something for yourselves! You would even play a game to see who gets an orphan as a prize!
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\v 28 Please look at me! I will not lie while I am talking straight to you.
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\v 29 Stop saying that I have sinned, and stop criticizing me unjustly!
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\q2 You should realize that I have not done things that are wrong.
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\v 30 Do you think that I am lying?
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\q2 No, I am not lying, because I know what is right to say, and what is wrong."
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