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“You have spoken in my hearing,
    and I have heard your very words.
You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin;
    I am innocent; I have no guilt.
10 God is picking a quarrel with me,
    and he considers me his enemy.
11 He puts my feet in the stocks
    and watches my every move.’

12 “But you are wrong, and I will show you why.
    For God is greater than any human being.
13 So why are you bringing a charge against him?
    Why say he does not respond to people’s complaints?

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“But you have said in my hearing—
    I heard the very words—
‘I am pure,(A) I have done no wrong;(B)
    I am clean and free from sin.(C)
10 Yet God has found fault with me;
    he considers me his enemy.(D)
11 He fastens my feet in shackles;(E)
    he keeps close watch on all my paths.’(F)

12 “But I tell you, in this you are not right,
    for God is greater than any mortal.(G)
13 Why do you complain to him(H)
    that he responds to no one’s words[a]?(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions