John 13:12-17

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¹²When he had washed their feet and ^(A)put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, ^(B)“Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³^(C)You call me ^(D)Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(E)you also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵For I have given you an example, ^(F)that you also should do just as I have done to you. ¹⁶Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(G)a servant^[a] is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, ^(H)blessed are you if you do them.

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John 13:16 Or bondservant, or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

Job 21:1-21

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Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper

21 Then Job answered and said:

²^(A)“Keep listening to my words,
    and let this be your comfort.
³Bear with me, and I will speak,
    and after I have spoken, ^(B)mock on.
⁴As for me, is my ^(C)complaint against man?
    Why should I not be impatient?
⁵Look at me and be appalled,
    and ^(D)lay your hand over your mouth.
⁶When I remember, I am dismayed,
    and shuddering seizes my flesh.
⁷^(E)Why do the wicked live,
    reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
⁸Their ^(F)offspring are established in their presence,
    and their descendants before their eyes.
⁹Their houses are ^(G)safe from fear,
    and ^(H)no rod of God is upon them.
¹⁰Their bull breeds without fail;
    their cow calves and ^(I)does not miscarry.
¹¹They send out their ^(J)little boys like a flock,
    and their children dance.
¹²They sing to ^(K)the tambourine and ^(L)the lyre
    and rejoice to the sound of ^(M)the pipe.
¹³They ^(N)spend their days in prosperity,
    and in ^(O)peace they go down to ^(P)Sheol.
¹⁴They say to God, ^(Q)‘Depart from us!
    We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
¹⁵^(R)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what ^(S)profit do we get if we pray to him?’
¹⁶Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
    ^(T)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷“How often is it that ^(U)the lamp of the wicked is put out?
    That their calamity comes upon them?
    That God^[a] distributes pains in his anger?
¹⁸That they are like ^(V)straw before the wind,
    and like ^(W)chaff that the storm carries away?
¹⁹You say, ‘God ^(X)stores up their iniquity for their ^(Y)children.’
    Let him pay it out to them, that they may ^(Z)know it.
²⁰Let their own eyes see their destruction,
    and let them ^(AA)drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
²¹For what do they care for their houses after them,
    when ^(AB)the number of their months is cut off?