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“My troubled thoughts force me to answer you.
    That’s because I’m very upset.
What you have just said dishonors me.
    So I really have to reply to you.

“I’m sure you must know how things have always been.
    They’ve been that way
    ever since human beings were placed on this earth.

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“My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.(A)
I hear a rebuke(B) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

“Surely you know how it has been from of old,(C)
    ever since mankind[a] was placed on the earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:4 Or Adam