10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 Lit sin with his lips

10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(A)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.

26 Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?(A)

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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12 All of you have seen this for yourselves,
why do you keep up this empty talk?(A)

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12 You have all seen this yourselves.
    Why then this meaningless talk?

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