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10 God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

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18 O earth, do not cover my blood,
    nor let my outcry come to rest![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:18 As the exposed blood of those who were unjustly slain cries to heaven for vengeance (Gn 4:10; Ez 24:6–9), so Job’s sufferings demand redress.

38 Shedding innocent blood,
    the blood of their own sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    desecrating the land with bloodshed.

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For see, the Lord goes out from his place(A)
    and descending, treads upon the heights of the earth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 The Lord comes in a theophany which has devastating effects on the natural world (1:4).