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33 |If I have covered my disobedience like Adam and kept my sin to myself, 34 because I dreaded the large, noisy crowd and because the contempt of the [local] mobs terrified me so that I kept quiet and didn't go outside.... 35 |If only I had someone who would listen to me! Look, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. Let the prosecutor write [his complaint] on a scroll. 36 I would certainly carry it on my shoulder and place it on my head like a crown. 37 I would tell him the number of my steps and approach him like a prince. 38 |If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept.... 39 If I have eaten its produce without paying for it and made its owners breathe their last, 40 [then] let it grow thistles instead of wheat, and foul-smelling weeds instead of barley.| This is the end of Job's words. Job 31:33-40, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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