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15 See, he will kill me; I have no hope;[a]
    but I will defend my ways to his face.(A)

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  1. 13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him

20 whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

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Even though I walk through the darkest valley,[a]
    I fear no evil,
for you are with me;
    your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.(A)

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  1. 23.4 Or the valley of the shadow of death

10 But he knows the way that I take;
    when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.(A)

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32 The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing,
    but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.[a](A)

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  1. 14.32 Gk Syr: Heb in their death

Far be it from me to say that you are right;
    until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.(A)

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38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,(A) 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?[a]
    Anyone who argues with God must respond.”(A)

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  1. 40.2 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

I would lay my case before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.(A)
I would learn what he would answer me
    and understand what he would say to me.
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?
    No, but he would give heed to me.
There the upright could reason with him,
    and I should be acquitted forever by my judge.(B)

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25 For I know that my vindicator[a] lives
    and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;(A)
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
    then in my flesh I shall see God,(B)
27 whom I shall see on my side,
    and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
    My heart faints within me!(C)
28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
    and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’(D)

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  1. 19.25 Or redeemer

18 I have indeed prepared my case;
    I know that I shall be vindicated.

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Will you even put me in the wrong?
    Will you condemn me that you may be justified?(A)

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21 that he would maintain the right of a mortal with God,
    as[a] one does for a neighbor.(A)

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  1. 16.21 Syr Vg Tg: Heb and

17 though there is no violence in my hands,
    and my prayer is pure.(A)

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My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
    and come to their end without hope.[a](A)

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  1. 7.6 Or as the thread runs out

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you?
    I lay my hand on my mouth.(A)
I have spoken once, and I will not answer,
    twice but will proceed no further.”(B)

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although you know that I am not guilty,
    and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?(A)

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31 if those of my tent ever said,
    ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’[a](A)
32 the stranger has not lodged in the street;
    I have opened my doors to the traveler—(B)
33 if I have concealed my transgressions as others do,[b]
    by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,(C)
34 because I stood in great fear of the multitude,
    and the contempt of families terrified me,
    so that I kept silence and did not go out of doors—(D)
35 O that I had one to hear me!
    (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty[c] answer me!)
    O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!(E)
36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;
    I would bind it on me like a crown;
37 I would give him an account of all my steps;
    like a prince I would approach him.(F)

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  1. 31.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 31.33 Or as Adam did
  3. 31.35 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai