26 lines
2.1 KiB
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26 lines
2.1 KiB
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Job Chapter 12
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1 Then Job answered,
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2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
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3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
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4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
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5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
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6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
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7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
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8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
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9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
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10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
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11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
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12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
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13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
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14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
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16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
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17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
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18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
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19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
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20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
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21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
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22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
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23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
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24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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