- 37:1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of his place.
- 37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
- 37:3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
- 37:4 After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
- 37:5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.
- 37:6 For he said to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
- 37:7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
- 37:8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
- 37:9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- 37:10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- 37:11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:
- 37:12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatever he commands them on the face of the world in the earth.
- 37:13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
- 37:14 Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
- 37:15 Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
- 37:16 Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
- 37:17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
- 37:18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
- 37:19 Teach us what we shall say to him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
- 37:20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
- 37:21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleans them.
- 37:22 Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
- 37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
- 37:24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart.
Job 37
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Job 36
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- 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
- 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.
- 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
- 36:4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- 36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
- 36:6 He preserves not the life of the wicked: but gives right to the poor.
- 36:7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yes, he does establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
- 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;
- 36:9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
- 36:10 He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.
- 36:11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
- 36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
- 36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
- 36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- 36:15 He delivers the poor in his affliction, and opens their ears in oppression.
- 36:16 Even so would he have removed you out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no narrow place; and that which should be set on your table should be full of fatness.
- 36:17 But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.
- 36:18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver you.
- 36:19 Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
- 36:20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
- 36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this have you chosen rather than affliction.
- 36:22 Behold, God exalts by his power: who teaches like him?
- 36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?
- 36:24 Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold.
- 36:25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
- 36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
- 36:27 For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:
- 36:28 Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.
- 36:29 Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
- 36:30 Behold, he spreads his light on it, and covers the bottom of the sea.
- 36:31 For by them judges he the people; he gives meat in abundance.
- 36:32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.
- 36:33 The noise thereof shows concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapor.
Job 35
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- 35:1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
- 35:2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- 35:3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- 35:4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
- 35:5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
- 35:6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
- 35:7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
- 35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
- 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- 35:10 But none said, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
- 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
- 35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- 35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- 35:14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
- 35:15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
- 35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Job 34
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- 34:1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
- 34:2 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge.
- 34:3 For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat.
- 34:4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.
- 34:5 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment.
- 34:6 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
- 34:8 Which goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men.
- 34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
- 34:10 Therefore listen to me you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
- 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- 34:12 Yes, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
- 34:13 Who has given him a charge over the earth? or who has disposed the whole world?
- 34:14 If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;
- 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.
- 34:16 If now you have understanding, hear this: listen to the voice of my words.
- 34:17 Shall even he that hates right govern? and will you condemn him that is most just?
- 34:18 Is it fit to say to a king, You are wicked? and to princes, You are ungodly?
- 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
- 34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
- 34:21 For his eyes are on the ways of man, and he sees all his goings.
- 34:22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- 34:23 For he will not lay on man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
- 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
- 34:25 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
- 34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
- 34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
- 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
- 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
- 34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
- 34:31 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
- 34:32 That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
- 34:33 Should it be according to your mind? he will recompense it, whether you refuse, or whether you choose; and not I: therefore speak what you know.
- 34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.
- 34:35 Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- 34:36 My desire is that Job may be tried to the end because of his answers for wicked men.
- 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin, he clapps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.
Job 33
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- 33:1 Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
- 33:2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
- 33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
- 33:4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.
- 33:5 If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.
- 33:6 Behold, I am according to your wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
- 33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy on you.
- 33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
- 33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
- 33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
- 33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths.
- 33:12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
- 33:13 Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
- 33:14 For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not.
- 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumberings on the bed;
- 33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
- 33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
- 33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- 33:19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- 33:20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
- 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- 33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- 33:23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man his uprightness:
- 33:24 Then he is gracious to him, and said, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- 33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
- 33:26 He shall pray to God, and he will be favorable to him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
- 33:27 He looks on men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
- 33:28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- 33:29 See, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
- 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
- 33:31 Mark well, O Job, listen to me: hold your peace, and I will speak.
- 33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify you.
- 33:33 If not, listen to me: hold your peace, and I shall teach you wisdom.
Job 32
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- 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- 32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
- 32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- 32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- 32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
- 32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; why I was afraid, and dared not show you my opinion.
- 32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
- 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
- 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
- 32:10 Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.
- 32:11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst you searched out what to say.
- 32:12 Yes, I attended to you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
- 32:13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusts him down, not man.
- 32:14 Now he has not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
- 32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
- 32:16 When I had waited, (for they spoke not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
- 32:17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show my opinion.
- 32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constrains me.
- 32:19 Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
- 32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
- 32:21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles to man.
- 32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Job 31
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- 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
- 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
- 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
- 31:4 Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;
- 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity.
- 31:7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot has stuck to my hands;
- 31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.
- 31:9 If my heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;
- 31:10 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.
- 31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
- 31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
- 31:13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
- 31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? and when he visits, what shall I answer him?
- 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
- 31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
- 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
- 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
- 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
- 31:22 Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
- 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
- 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
- 31:25 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
- 31:26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
- 31:27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
- 31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
- 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
- 31:30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
- 31:32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.
- 31:33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
- 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
- 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
- 31:36 Surely I would take it on my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
- 31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
- 31:38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
- 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
- 31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Job 30
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- 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- 30:2 Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
- 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
- 30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- 30:9 And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
- 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
- 30:11 Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
- 30:12 On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
- 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- 30:14 They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me.
- 30:15 Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
- 30:16 And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
- 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- 30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- 30:20 I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
- 30:21 You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
- 30:22 You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance.
- 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- 30:24 However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
- 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
- 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
- 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
- 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- 30:30 My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job 29
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- 29:1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
- 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
- 29:3 When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle;
- 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
- 29:6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
- 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
- 29:8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
- 29:9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
- 29:10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
- 29:11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
- 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- 29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
- 29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- 29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
- 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- 29:17 And I broke the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
- 29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- 29:19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
- 29:20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
- 29:21 To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
- 29:22 After my words they spoke not again; and my speech dropped on them.
- 29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
- 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
- 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
Job 28
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- 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
- 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
- 28:3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
- 28:4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
- 28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
- 28:6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
- 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen:
- 28:8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
- 28:9 He puts forth his hand on the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots.
- 28:10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
- 28:11 He binds the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.
- 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
- 28:13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
- 28:14 The depth said, It is not in me: and the sea said, It is not with me.
- 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
- 28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
- 28:17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.
- 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
- 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
- 28:20 From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
- 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
- 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
- 28:23 God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
- 28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
- 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weighs the waters by measure.
- 28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
- 28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.
- 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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