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I have said too much already.
    I have nothing more to say.”

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I spoke once, but I have no answer(A)
    twice, but I will say no more.”(B)

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11 God has spoken plainly,
    and I have heard it many times:
Power, O God, belongs to you;

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11 One thing God has spoken,
    two things I have heard:
“Power belongs to you, God,(A)

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14 For God speaks again and again,
    though people do not recognize it.

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14 For God does speak(A)—now one way, now another(B)
    though no one perceives it.(C)

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19 Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.

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19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(A) it says to those who are under the law,(B) so that every mouth may be silenced(C) and the whole world held accountable to God.(D)

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18 I have heard Israel[a] saying,
‘You disciplined me severely,
    like a calf that needs training for the yoke.
Turn me again to you and restore me,
    for you alone are the Lord my God.
19 I turned away from God,
    but then I was sorry.
I kicked myself for my stupidity!
    I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.’

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Footnotes

  1. 31:18 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel; also in 31:20.

18 “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined(A) me like an unruly calf,(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.
19 After I strayed,(D)
    I repented;
after I came to understand,
    I beat(E) my breast.
I was ashamed(F) and humiliated
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’(G)

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31 “Why don’t people say to God, ‘I have sinned,
    but I will sin no more’?
32 Or ‘I don’t know what evil I have done—tell me.
    If I have done wrong, I will stop at once’?

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31 “Suppose someone says to God,
    ‘I am guilty(A) but will offend no more.
32 Teach me what I cannot see;(B)
    if I have done wrong, I will not do so again.’(C)

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15 Even if I were right, I would have no defense.
    I could only plead for mercy.

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15 Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;(A)
    I could only plead(B) with my Judge(C) for mercy.(D)

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If someone wanted to take God to court,[a]
    would it be possible to answer him even once in a thousand times?

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Footnotes

  1. 9:3 Or If God wanted to take someone to court.

Though they wished to dispute with him,(A)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.(B)

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10 So the king of Israel would send word to the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he would be on the alert there.

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10 So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned(A) the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.

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