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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"I made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, can I focus my attention on a virgin? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What would I have from God above, what heritage from the Almighty on high, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He watches my life, observing every one of my actions, does he not?" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"If I've lived my life in the company of vanity, or run quickly to embrace deception, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6let my righteousness be weighed in honest scales, and God will make known my integrity. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If I have stepped away from the way, or if my heart covets whatever my eyes see, or if some other blemish clings to my hands, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10then let my wife cook for another person and may someone else sleep with her, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11because something as lascivious as that is an iniquity that should be judged. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The fires of Abaddon will burn, disrupting every part of my eternal reward." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"If I've refused to help my male and female servants when they complain against me, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The one who made me in the womb made them, too, didn't he? Didn't the same one prepare each of us in the womb?" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"If I refused to grant the desire of the poor or exhausted the eyes of the widow, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17if I ate my meals by myself without feeding orphans, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born), |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19if I've observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes or if I have no clothing to give to the poor, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20if he hadn't thanked me from the bottom of his heart, if he had not been warmed by wool from my sheep, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21if I've raised my hand against an orphan when I thought I would against him in court, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22then let my arm fall from its socket; and may my arm be torn off at the shoulder. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For I'm terrified of what calamity God may have in store for me; and I cannot endure his grandeur." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"If I've put my confidence in gold, if I've told gold, 'You're my security,' |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25if I've found joy in great wealth that I own, if I've earned a lot with my own hands, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27so that in the depths of my deceived heart I worshipped them with my mouth and hands, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28this is also a sin that deserves to be judged, since I would have tried to deceive God above." |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Have I rejoiced in the destruction of those who hate me, or have I been happy that evil caught up with him? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30No, I haven't allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31People in my household have said, 'We cannot find anyone who has not been satisfied with his meat,' haven't they? |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32No stranger ever spent the night in the street, because I opened my doors to travelers." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself? |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Have I feared large crowds? Has my family's contempt ever terrified me so that I remained silent and wouldn't go outside?" |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"Who will grant me a hearing? Here's my signature —let the Almighty answer! Since my adversary indicted me, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36I'll wear it on my shoulder, or tie it on my head for a crown! |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37I'll give an account for every step I've taken; I'll approach him confidently like a Commander-in-Chief." |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38"If my land were to cry out against me or if all its furrows wept as one, |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39If I've consumed its produce without paying for it and snuffed out the life of its owners; |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40may thorns spring up instead of wheat, and obnoxious weeds instead of barley." With this, Job's discourse with his friends is completed. |
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