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| 12:1 |
Then Job responded,
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| 12:2 |
"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
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| 12:3 |
"But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
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| 12:4 |
"I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
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| 12:5 |
"He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
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| 12:6 |
"The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
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| 12:7 |
"But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
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| 12:8 |
"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
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| 12:9 |
"Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,
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| 12:10 |
In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
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| 12:11 |
"Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
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| 12:12 |
"Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
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| 12:13 |
"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.
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| 12:14 |
"Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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| 12:15 |
"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
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| 12:16 |
"With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
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| 12:17 |
"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
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| 12:18 |
"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.
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| 12:19 |
"He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
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| 12:20 |
"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
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| 12:21 |
"He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
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| 12:22 |
"He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.
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| 12:23 |
"He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
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| 12:24 |
"He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
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| 12:25 |
"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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