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Passage Lookup: Job 36:1-39:12
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Job 36:1
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Then Elihu continued, saying:
Job 36:2
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Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you, for there is still more to be said on God's behalf.
Job 36:3
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I will get my knowledge from a distant place and ascribe justice to my Maker.
Job 36:4
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For my arguments are without flaw;[a] one who has perfect knowledge is with you.
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Job 36:5
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Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He understands all things.[b](a)
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Job 36:6
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He does not keep the wicked alive,(b) but He gives justice to the afflicted.
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Job 36:7
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He does not remove His gaze from the righteous, but He seats them forever with enthroned kings, and they are exalted.
Job 36:8
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If people are bound with chains and trapped by the cords of affliction,
Job 36:9
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God tells them what they have done and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
Job 36:10
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He opens their ears(c) to correction and insists they repent from iniquity.
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Job 36:11
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If they serve Him obediently, they will end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.(d)
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Job 36:12
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But if they do not obey, they will cross the river of death[c] and die without knowledge.(e)
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Job 36:13
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Those who have a godless heart harbor anger; even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
Job 36:14
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They die in their youth; their life ends among male cult prostitutes.(f)
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Job 36:15
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God rescues the afflicted by their affliction; He instructs them by their torment.
Job 36:16
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Indeed, He lured you from the jaws[d] of distress to a spacious and unconfined place. Your table was spread with choice food.
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Job 36:17
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Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
Job 36:18
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Be careful that no one lures you with riches;[e] do not let a large ransom[f] lead you astray.(g)
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Job 36:19
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Can your wealth[g] or all your physical exertion keep you from distress?(h)
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Job 36:20
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Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.
Job 36:21
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Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity, for that is why you have been tested by[h] affliction.
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Job 36:22
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Look, God shows Himself exalted by His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
Job 36:23
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Who has appointed His way for Him, and who has declared, "You have done wrong"?(i)
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Job 36:24
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Remember that you should praise His work, which people have sung about.(j)
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Job 36:25
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All mankind has seen it; people have looked at it from a distance.(k)
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Job 36:26
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Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;(l) the number of His years cannot be counted.(m)
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Job 36:27
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For He makes waterdrops evaporate;[i] they distill the rain into its[j] mist,(n)
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Job 36:28
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which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
Job 36:29
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Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God's pavilion?(o)
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Job 36:30
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See how He spreads His lightning(p) around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
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Job 36:31
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For He judges the nations with these; He gives food in abundance.(q)
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Job 36:32
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He covers His hands with lightning and commands it to hit its mark.
Job 36:33
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The[k] thunder declares His presence;[l] the cattle also, the approaching storm.
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Job 37:1
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My heart(a) pounds at this and leaps from my chest.[a]
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Job 37:2
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Just listen to His thunderous voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
Job 37:3
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He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; His lightning to the ends(b) of the earth.
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Job 37:4
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Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders(c) with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His rumbling voice is heard.
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Job 37:5
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God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things that we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:6
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For He says to the snow,(d) "Fall to the earth," and the torrential rains, His mighty torrential rains,
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Job 37:7
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serve as His sign to all mankind, so that all men may know His work.
Job 37:8
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The wild animals enter their lairs and stay in their dens.(e)
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Job 37:9
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The windstorm comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Job 37:10
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Ice is formed by the breath of God,(f) and watery expanses are frozen.
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Job 37:11
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He saturates clouds with moisture;(g) He scatters His lightning through them.
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Job 37:12
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They swirl about, turning round and round at His direction, accomplishing everything He commands them over the surface of the inhabited world.
Job 37:13
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He causes this to happen for punishment, for His land, or for His faithful love.
Job 37:14
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Listen to this, Job. Stop and consider God's wonders.
Job 37:15
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Do you know how God directs His clouds or makes their lightning flash?
Job 37:16
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Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?
Job 37:17
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You whose clothes get hot when the south wind brings calm to the land,
Job 37:18
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can you help God spread out the skies as hard as a cast metal mirror?
Job 37:19
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Teach us what we should say to Him;(h) we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
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Job 37:20
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Should He be told that I want to speak? Can a man speak when he is confused?
Job 37:21
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Now men cannot even look at the sun when it is in the skies, after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.
Job 37:22
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Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow; awesome(i) majesty surrounds Him.
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Job 37:23
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The Almighty—we cannot reach Him— He is exalted in power! He will not oppress justice and abundant righteousness,
Job 37:24
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Therefore, men fear Him. He does not look favorably on any who are wise(j) in heart.
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Job 38:1
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Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind.(a) He said:
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Job 38:2
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Who is this who obscures My counsel with ignorant words?(b)
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Job 38:3
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Get ready to answer Me like a man; when I question(c) you, you will inform Me.
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Job 38:4
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Where were you when I established(d) the earth? Tell Me, if you have[a] understanding.
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Job 38:5
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Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Job 38:6
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What supports its foundations? Or who laid its cornerstone
Job 38:7
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while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God(e) shouted for joy?
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Job 38:8
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Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst from the womb,
Job 38:9
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when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,[b](f)
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Job 38:10
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when I determined its boundaries[c] and put its bars and doors in place,
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Job 38:11
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when I declared: "You may come this far, but no farther; your proud waves stop here"?
Job 38:12
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Have you ever in your life commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Job 38:13
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so it may seize the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Job 38:14
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The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Job 38:15
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Light[d] is withheld from the wicked, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
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Job 38:16
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Have you traveled to the sources of the sea or walked in the depths of the oceans?
Job 38:17
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Have the gates(g) of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
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Job 38:18
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Have you comprehended the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
Job 38:19
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Where is the road to the home of light? Do you know where darkness lives,
Job 38:20
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so you can lead it back to its border? Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
Job 38:21
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Don't you know? You were already born;(h) you have lived so long![e]
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Job 38:22
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Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail,(i)
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Job 38:23
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which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of warfare and battle?(j)
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Job 38:24
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What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[f] Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
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Job 38:25
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Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain or clears the way for lightning,
Job 38:26
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to bring rain on an uninhabited land, on a desert with no human life,[g]
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Job 38:27
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to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?(k)
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Job 38:28
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Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?(l)
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Job 38:29
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Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
Job 38:30
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when water becomes as hard as stone,[h] and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?(m)
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Job 38:31
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Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
Job 38:32
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Can you bring out the constellations[i] in their season and lead the Bear[j] and her cubs?(n)
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Job 38:33
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Do you know the laws(o) of heaven? Can you impose its[k] authority on earth?
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Job 38:34
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Can you command[l] the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?(p)
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Job 38:35
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Can you send out lightning(q) bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: "Here we are"?
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Job 38:36
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Who put wisdom(r) in the heart[m] or gave the mind understanding?
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Job 38:37
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Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
Job 38:38
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when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?
Job 38:39
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Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions(s)
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Job 38:40
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when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?
Job 38:41
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Who provides the raven's food(t) when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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Job 39:1
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Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the deer in labor?
Job 39:2
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Can you count the months they are pregnant[a] so you can know the time they give birth?
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Job 39:3
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They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.[b]
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Job 39:4
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Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.[c]
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Job 39:5
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Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its harness?
Job 39:6
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I made the wilderness(a) its home, and the salty(b) wasteland its dwelling.
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Job 39:7
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It scoffs at the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.(c)
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Job 39:8
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It roams the mountains for its pastureland, searching for anything green.
Job 39:9
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Would the wild ox be willing to serve you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?
Job 39:10
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Can you hold the wild ox(d) to a furrow by its harness? Will it plow the valleys behind you?
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Job 39:11
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Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?
Job 39:12
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Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
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