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“In order that people will praise my name,
    I am holding my anger in check;
    I am keeping it back and will not destroy you.
10 I have tested you in the fire of suffering,
    as silver is refined in a furnace.
But I have found that you are worthless.
11 What I do is done for my own sake—
    I will not let my name be dishonored
    or let anyone else share the glory
    that should be mine and mine alone.”

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For my own name’s sake(A) I delay my wrath;(B)
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.(C)
10 See, I have refined(D) you, though not as silver;
    I have tested(E) you in the furnace(F) of affliction.
11 For my own sake,(G) for my own sake, I do this.
    How can I let myself be defamed?(H)
    I will not yield my glory to another.(I)

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