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Job 13:18

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I am ready now to defend myself.\par I will carefully present my arguments.\par I know I will be shown to be right.\par

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You know I am innocent,\par but no one can save me\par from your power!\par

“My friends laugh at me now.\par They say,\par ‘He prayed to God,\par and he got his answer.\par \{That is why all these bad things\par happened to him.\}’\par

Listen carefully to what I say.\par Let me explain.\par

He speaks to God for me\par like a person {\cf2\super [31]} arguing for his friend.\par

I would explain to God my story.\par My mouth would be full of arguments\par to show I am innocent.\par

I will hold tightly\par to the right things I did.\par I will never stop living right.\par My conscience will never bother me\par as long as I live.\par

Then Job’s three friends gave up trying to answer Job. They gave up because Job was so sure that he himself was truly innocent.

You said:\par ‘I am pure.\par I am innocent\par I did nothing wrong.\par I am not guilty!\par

Job says,\par ‘I, Job, am innocent.\par And God is not fair to me.\par

So now, change your mind.\par Don’t be unfair, think again.\par I have done nothing wrong.\par

I am innocent, but the things I say\par make me seem guilty.\par I am innocent, but if I speak\par my mouth proves me guilty.\par

I am innocent.\par But I don’t know what to think.\par I hate my own life.\par

But you should remember me. We should meet together and decide what is right. You should tell the things \{you have done\} and show you are right.

This is what we are proud of, and I can say with all my heart that it is true: In all the things we have done in the world, we have done everything with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even more true in the things we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace (kindness), not by the kind of wisdom the world has.




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