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March 1 - Faith in the Presence of Loss · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, March 1st, when life
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  hits hard. Have you ever felt like life
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  just blindsided you? Like 1 moment everything.
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  Seemed fine and the next it all fell apart.
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  Maybe it was a failed exam you studied so hard for, a
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  relationship that suddenly ended, or news you never saw
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  coming. In those moments, it can feel
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  like the ground beneath you has disappeared.
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  In Proverbs Chapter 11, verses 18 to 19, we read the wicked
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  earns deceptive wages, but one who sews righteousness gets a
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  sure reward. Whoever is steadfast in
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  righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.
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  A sure reward, Not a temporary one, not a fragile 1.
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  Sure. And then in Job chapter one,
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  verse 21, after losing his wealth, his children and
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  everything he owned, Job said naked, I came from my mother's
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  womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has
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  taken away. Blessed.
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  Be the name of the Lord. And verse 22 tells us, in all
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  this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
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  That's powerful. Job didn't pretend it didn't
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  hurt. He didn't say it was easy.
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  But he refused to blame God. He chose trust over bitterness.
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  When life hits hard, our natural reaction is often anger, fear,
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  or shutting down. We scroll endlessly to escape.
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  We vent. We question God's goodness.
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  But Job shows us something different.
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  He shows us that faith isn't about having perfect
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  circumstances. It's about having a steady heart
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  when circumstances are anything but perfect.
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  Proverbs reminds us that righteousness brings a sure
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  reward. That reward isn't always instant
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  success or visible blessings. Sometimes the reward is deeper.
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  A life anchored in God, a peace that doesn't make sense.
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  A character that becomes unshakable.
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  When you stay faithful in a storm.
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  Something inside you grow stronger.
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  Your roots go deeper. Maybe the pressure you're
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  feeling right now isn't meant to crush you, but to strengthen
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  you. Maybe this challenge is shaping
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  a faith that can't be easily shaken.
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  God's bigger plan often unfolds in seasons we would never choose
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  for ourselves. Real faith is not proven when
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  life is easy. It's proven when you say even
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  through tears, blessed. Be the name of the.
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  Lord, it's choosing to believe that God is still good, still
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  present, and still working even when you don't see the full
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  picture. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, you see the places in my life that hurt
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  right now. You know the disappointments,
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  the losses, the questions I carry.
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  Help me to trust you when life hits hard.
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  Give me the strength to stay steadfast in righteousness and
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  to believe that your reward is sure.
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  Grow my faith in the middle of the storm and teach me to say
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  with confidence. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  human experience, and scripture without preaching pressure or
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  confronts the mystery of existence itself and asks why
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  anything exists at all. Book 2, The Cause behind the
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  Cosmos, examines the origin of the universe and whether it
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  points beyond itself. Book 3, Design or Accident,
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  wrestles with order and complexity.
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  Are they products of chance or intelligence?
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  Book 4, The Moral Signature, explores why objective right and
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  wrong may require a source beyond human opinion.
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  Book 5, The God We Cannot Escape, considers conscience,
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  longing, and humanity's persistent awareness of God.
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  who exists would also speak. And Book 7, Denying God,
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  examines the internal tensions of unbelief and the deeper
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  implications of rejecting the divine.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs Chapter 11 Verses 18 to
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  19 World English Bible Wicked people earned deceitful wages,
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  but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
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  He who is truly righteous gets life.
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  He who pursues evil gets death. Job Chapters One to two World
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  English Bible There was a man in the land of Oz whose name was
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  Job. That man was blameless and
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  upright, and one who feared God and turned away from evil.
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  They were born to him, seven sons and three daughters.
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  His possessions also were 7000 sheep, 3000 camels, 500 yoke of
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  oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very great household, so that
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  this man was the greatest of all the children of the East.
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  His sons went and held a feast in the House of each one on his
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  birthday, and they sent and called for their three sisters
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  to eat and to drink with them. It was so when the days of their
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  feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified
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  them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt
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  offerings according to the number of them all.
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  For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and renounced
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  God in their hearts. Job did so continually.
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  Now on the day when God's sons came to present themselves
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  before Yahweh, Satan also came among them.
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  Yahweh. Said to Satan.
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  Where have you come from then Satan answered Yahweh and said,
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  from going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and
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  down in it Yahweh. Said to Satan.
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  Have you considered my servant job?
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  For there is no one like him in the earth.
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  A blameless and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away
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  from evil. Then Satan answered Yahweh and
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  said, does Job fear God for nothing?
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  Haven't you made a hedge around him and around his house and
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  around all that he has on every side?
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  You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is
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  increased in the land. But stretch out your hand now
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  and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your
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  face. Yahweh said to Satan.
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  Behold. All that he has is in your
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  power, only on himself. Don't stretch out your hand.
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  So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
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  It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating
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  and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, that a
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  messenger came to Job and said the oxen were plowing and the
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  donkeys feeding beside them, and the Sabians attacked and took
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  them away. Yes, they have killed the
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  servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped
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  to tell you. While he was still speaking,
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  another also came and said, The fire of God has fallen from the
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  sky and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed
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  them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
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  While he was still speaking, another also came and said The
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  Chaldeans made three bands and swept down on the camels and
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  have taken them away. Yes, and killed the servants
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  with the edge of the sword. And I alone have escaped to tell
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  you. While he was still speaking,
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  there came also another and said, Your sons and your
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  daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest
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  brother's house. And behold, there came a great
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  wind from the wilderness and struck the four corners of the
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  house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead.
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  I alone have escaped to tell you.
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  Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and fell
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  down on the ground and worshipped.
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  He said, naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked will I
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  return there Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away.
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  Blessed be Yahweh's name in all this.
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  Job didn't sin nor charge God with wrongdoing.
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  Again, on the day when God's sons came to present themselves
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  before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself
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  before Yahweh. Yahweh said to Satan.
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  Where have you come from? Satan answered Yahweh and said
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  from going back and forth in the earth and from walking up and
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  down in it Yahweh. Said to Satan.
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  Have you considered my servant job for there?
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  Is no one like him in the earth? A blameless and an upright man,
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  one who fears God and turns away from evil.
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  He still maintains his integrity, although you incited
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  me against him to ruin him without cause.
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  Satan answered Yahweh and said skin for skin.
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  Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
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  But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his
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  flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.
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  Yahweh said to Satan. Behold, he is in your hand, only
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  spare his life. So Satan went out from the
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  presence of Yahweh and struck Job with painful sores from the
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  sole of his foot to his head. He took for himself a potsherd
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  to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
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  Then his wife said to him, Do you still maintain your
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  integrity, renounce God and die? But he said to her, You speak as
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  one of the foolish women would speak.
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  What shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we
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  not receive evil in all this? Job didn't sin with his lips.
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  Now when Jobs three friends heard of all this evil that had
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  come on him, they each came from his own place, Alyphus the
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  Temenite build at the shoe height, and Zafar the Namathite,
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  and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize
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  with him and to comfort him. When they lifted up their eyes
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  from a distance and didn't recognize him, they raised their
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  voices and wept, and they each tore his robe and sprinkled dust
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  on their heads toward the sky. So they sat down with him on the
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  ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word
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  to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
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