Job 9:1

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Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

9 Then Job answered and said:

Job 10:1-9

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Job Continues: A Plea to God

10 “I ^(A)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my ^(B)complaint;
    I will speak in ^(C)the bitterness of my soul.
²I will say to God, Do not ^(D)condemn me;
    let me know why you ^(E)contend against me.
³^(F)Does it seem good to you to oppress,
    to despise ^(G)the work of your hands
    ^(H)and favor the designs of the wicked?
⁴Have you ^(I)eyes of flesh?
    ^(J)Do you see as man sees?
⁵Are your days as the days of man,
    or your ^(K)years as a man's years,
⁶that you ^(L)seek out my iniquity
    and search for my sin,
⁷although you ^(M)know that I am not guilty,
    and there is ^(N)none to deliver out of your hand?
⁸^(O)Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you have destroyed me altogether.
⁹Remember that you have made me like ^(P)clay;
    and will you return me to the ^(Q)dust?

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Job 10:16-22

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¹⁶And were my head lifted up,^[a] you would hunt me like ^(A)a lion
    and again work ^(B)wonders against me.
¹⁷You renew your ^(C)witnesses against me
    and increase your vexation toward me;
    you ^(D)bring fresh troops against me.

¹⁸^(E)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
    Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
¹⁹^(F)and were as though I had not been,
    carried from the womb to the grave.
²⁰^(G)Are not my days few?
    ^(H)Then cease, and leave me alone, ^(I)that I may find a little cheer
²¹before I go—and ^(J)I shall not return—
    to the land of ^(K)darkness and ^(L)deep shadow,
²²the land of gloom like thick darkness,
    like deep shadow without any order,
    where light is as thick darkness.”

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Footnotes

Job 10:16 Hebrew lacks my head

Acts 11:1-18

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Peter Reports to the Church

11 Now the apostles and ^(A)the brothers^[a] who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. ²So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, ^(B)the circumcision party^[b] criticized him, saying, ³^(C)“You went to uncircumcised men and ^(D)ate with them.” ⁴But Peter began and explained it to them in order: ⁵^(E)“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. ⁶Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. ⁷And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ ⁸But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ ⁹But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’ ¹⁰This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven. ¹¹And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea. ¹²And the Spirit told me to go with them, ^(F)making no distinction. ^(G)These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man's house. ¹³And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; ¹⁴^(H)he will declare to you a message by which ^(I)you will be saved, you and all your household.’ ¹⁵As I began to speak, ^(J)the Holy Spirit fell on them ^(K)just as on us at the beginning. ¹⁶And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ^(L)‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷If then ^(M)God gave ^(N)the same gift to them as he gave to us ^(O)when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(P)who was I ^(Q)that I could stand in God's way?” ¹⁸When they heard these things they fell silent. And they ^(R)glorified God, saying, ^(S)“Then to the Gentiles also God has ^(T)granted ^(U)repentance that leads to life.”

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Footnotes

Acts 11:1 Or brothers and sisters
Acts 11:2 Or Jerusalem, those of the circumcision

John 8:12-20

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I Am the Light of the World

¹²^(A)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(B)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(C)follows me will not ^(D)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³So the Pharisees said to him, ^(E)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(F)my testimony is true, for I know ^(G)where I came from and ^(H)where I am going, but ^(I)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ¹⁵^(J)You judge according to the flesh; ^(K)I judge no one. ¹⁶Yet even if I do judge, ^(L)my judgment is true, for ^(M)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[a] who sent me. ¹⁷^(N)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(O)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(P)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(Q)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰These words he spoke in ^(R)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(S)no one arrested him, because ^(T)his hour had not yet come.