5-9 “We’ve all heard Job say, ‘I’m in the right,
    but God won’t give me a fair trial.
When I defend myself, I’m called a liar to my face.
    I’ve done nothing wrong, and I get punished anyway.’
Have you ever heard anything to beat this?
    Does nothing faze this man Job?
Do you think he’s spent too much time in bad company,
    hanging out with the wrong crowd,
So that now he’s parroting their line:
    ‘It doesn’t pay to try to please God’?

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Although I am right,
    I am considered a liar;(A)
although I am guiltless,(B)
    his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’(C)
Is there anyone like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water?(D)
He keeps company with evildoers;
    he associates with the wicked.(E)

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