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because they shake their fists at God and try to get their own way against the Almighty.

My sight has grown weak because of my sadness, and my body is as thin as a shadow.

Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.

"If you say, ‘We will continue to trouble Job, because the problem lies with him,'

"My troubled thoughts cause me to answer, because I am very upset.

because they troubled the poor and left them with nothing. They have taken houses they did not build.

No! It is because your evil is without limits and your sins have no end.

Even a guilty person will escape and be saved because your hands are clean."

"My complaint is still bitter today. I groan because God's heavy hand is on me.

They spend the night naked, because they have no clothes, nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

They are soaked from mountain rains and stay near the large rocks because they have no shelter.

In the dark, evil people break into houses. In the daytime they shut themselves up in their own houses, because they want nothing to do with the light.

The east wind will carry them away, and then they are gone, because it sweeps them out of their place.

because he looks to the farthest parts of the earth and sees everything under the sky.

because I saved the poor who called out and the orphan who had no one to help.

That person's heart blessed me, because I warmed him with the wool of my sheep.

If I had, these also would have been sins to be punished, because I would have been unfaithful to God.

No stranger ever had to spend the night in the street, because I always let travelers stay in my home.

I was not so afraid of the crowd that I kept quiet and stayed inside because I feared being hated by other families.

These three men stopped trying to answer Job, because he was so sure he was right.