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Does it please the Almighty that you are just?(A)
    Does he gain if your ways are perfect?[a]

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  1. 22:3 Another irony: God will “gain,” because he will have been proved right in his claim to the satan that Job is “perfect.”

What pleasure(A) would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?(B)
    What would he gain if your ways were blameless?(C)

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No one is fierce enough to arouse him;
    who then dares stand before me?

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Can you put a cord through its nose(A)
    or pierce its jaw with a hook?(B)

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10 So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’”

The Cleansing of Ten Lepers.[a]

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  1. 17:11–19 This incident recounting the thankfulness of the cleansed Samaritan leper is narrated only in Luke’s gospel and provides an instance of Jesus holding up a non-Jew (Lk 17:18) as an example to his Jewish contemporaries (cf. Lk 10:33 where a similar purpose is achieved in the story of the good Samaritan). Moreover, it is the faith in Jesus manifested by the foreigner that has brought him salvation (Lk 17:19; cf. the similar relationship between faith and salvation in Lk 7:50; 8:48, 50).

10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”(A)

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35 [a]“Or who has given him anything(A)
    that he may be repaid?”

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  1. 11:35 Paul quotes from an old Greek version of Jb 41:3a, which differs from the Hebrew text (Jb 41:11a).

35 “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 11:35 Job 41:11