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Job chapter 41

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Can you catch Leviathan with a fishhook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
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Can you put a rope through his snout or put a hook through his jaws?
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Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?
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Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?
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Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?
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Will fishermen bargain over him? Will merchants cut him up to sell?
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Can you fill his hide with fishing spears or pierce his head with a harpoon?
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Touch him once and you'll never try it again; you'll never forget the fight!
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Anyone who sees Leviathan loses courage and falls to the ground.
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When he is aroused, he is fierce; no one would dare to stand before him.
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Who can attack him and still be safe? No one in all the world can do it.
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Let me tell you about Leviathan's legs and describe how great and strong he is.
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No one can tear off his outer coat or pierce the armor he wears.
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Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?
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His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.
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Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.
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They all are fastened so firmly together that nothing can ever pull them apart.
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Light flashes when he sneezes, and his eyes glow like the rising sun.
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Flames blaze from his mouth, and streams of sparks fly out.
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Smoke comes pouring out of his nose, like smoke from weeds burning under a pot.
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His breath starts fires burning; flames leap out of his mouth.
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His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.
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There is not a weak spot in his skin; it is as hard and unyielding as iron.
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His stony heart is without fear, as unyielding and hard as a millstone.
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When he rises up, even the strongest are frightened; they are helpless with fear.
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There is no sword that can wound him; no spear or arrow or lance that can harm him.
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For him iron is as flimsy as straw, and bronze as soft as rotten wood.
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There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.
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To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.
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The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.
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He churns up the sea like boiling water and makes it bubble like a pot of oil.
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He leaves a shining path behind him and turns the sea to white foam.
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There is nothing on earth to compare with him; he is a creature that has no fear.
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He looks down on even the proudest animals; he is king of all wild beasts.

Job chapter 42

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Then Job answered the LORD.
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I know, LORD, that you are all-powerful; that you can do everything you want.
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You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know.
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You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.
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In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
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So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.
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After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.
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Now take seven bulls and seven rams to Job and offer them as a sacrifice for yourselves. Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer and not disgrace you the way you deserve. You did not speak the truth about me as he did."
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Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar did what the LORD had told them to do, and the LORD answered Job's prayer.
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Then, after Job had prayed for his three friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had had before.
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All Job's brothers and sisters and former friends came to visit him and feasted with him in his house. They expressed their sympathy and comforted him for all the troubles the LORD had brought on him. Each of them gave him some money and a gold ring.
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The LORD blessed the last part of Job's life even more than he had blessed the first. Job owned fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, two thousand head of cattle, and one thousand donkeys.
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He was the father of seven sons and three daughters.
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He called the oldest daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the youngest Keren Happuch.
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There were no other women in the whole world as beautiful as Job's daughters. Their father gave them a share of the inheritance along with their brothers.
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Job lived a hundred and forty years after this, long enough to see his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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And then he died at a very great age.

2 Corinthians chapter 1

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From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and from our brother Timothy--- To the church of God in Corinth, and to all God's people throughout Achaia:
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May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.
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Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes!
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He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God.
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Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.
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If we suffer, it is for your help and salvation; if we are helped, then you too are helped and given the strength to endure with patience the same sufferings that we also endure.
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So our hope in you is never shaken; we know that just as you share in our sufferings, you also share in the help we receive.
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We want to remind you, friends, of the trouble we had in the province of Asia. The burdens laid upon us were so great and so heavy that we gave up all hope of staying alive.
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We felt that the death sentence had been passed on us. But this happened so that we should rely, not on ourselves, but only on God, who raises the dead.
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From such terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that he will save us again,
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as you help us by means of your prayers for us. So it will be that the many prayers for us will be answered, and God will bless us; and many will raise their voices to him in thanksgiving for us.
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We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.
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We write to you only what you can read and understand. But even though you now understand us only in part, I hope that you will come to understand us completely, so that in the Day of our Lord Jesus you can be as proud of us as we shall be of you.
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(SEE 1:13)
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I was so sure of all this that I made plans at first to visit you, in order that you might be blessed twice.
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For I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and again on my way back, in order to get help from you for my trip to Judea.
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In planning this, did I appear fickle? When I make my plans, do I make them from selfish motives, ready to say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?
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As surely as God speaks the truth, my promise to you was not a "Yes" and a "No."
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For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by Silas, Timothy, and myself, is not one who is "Yes" and "No." On the contrary, he is God's "Yes";
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for it is he who is the "Yes" to all of God's promises. This is why through Jesus Christ our "Amen" is said to the glory of God.
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It is God himself who makes us, together with you, sure of our life in union with Christ; it is God himself who has set us apart,
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who has placed his mark of ownership upon us, and who has given us the Holy Spirit in our hearts as the guarantee of all that he has in store for us.
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I call God as my witness---he knows my heart! It was in order to spare you that I decided not to go to Corinth.
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We are not trying to dictate to you what you must believe; we know that you stand firm in the faith. Instead, we are working with you for your own happiness.

2 Corinthians chapter 2

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So I made up my mind not to come to you again to make you sad.
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For if I were to make you sad, who would be left to cheer me up? Only the very persons I had made sad.
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That is why I wrote that letter to you---I did not want to come to you and be made sad by the very people who should make me glad. For I am convinced that when I am happy, then all of you are happy too.
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I wrote you with a greatly troubled and distressed heart and with many tears; my purpose was not to make you sad, but to make you realize how much I love you all.
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Now, if anyone has made somebody sad, he has not done it to me but to all of you---in part, at least. (I say this because I do not want to be too hard on him.)
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It is enough that this person has been punished in this way by most of you.
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Now, however, you should forgive him and encourage him, in order to keep him from becoming so sad as to give up completely.
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And so I beg you to let him know that you really do love him.
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I wrote you that letter because I wanted to find out how well you had stood the test and whether you are always ready to obey my instructions.
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When you forgive people for what they have done, I forgive them too. For when I forgive---if, indeed, I need to forgive anything---I do it in Christ's presence because of you,
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in order to keep Satan from getting the upper hand over us; for we know what his plans are.
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When I arrived in Troas to preach the Good News about Christ, I found that the Lord had opened the way for the work there.
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But I was deeply worried, because I could not find our brother Titus. So I said good-bye to the people there and went on to Macedonia.
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But thanks be to God! For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ's victory procession. God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
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For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.
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For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?
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We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.

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