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Then Job answered and said: |
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"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. |
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? |
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I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. |
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In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. |
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The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand. |
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"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; |
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or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. |
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Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? |
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In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. |
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Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food? |
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Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. |
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"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding. |
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If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. |
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If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. |
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With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his. |
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He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. |
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He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips. |
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He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty. |
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He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders. |
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He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. |
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He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. |
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He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. |
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He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste. |
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They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. |
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