Job 13:1

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Job 13:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

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