| Chapter 12 |
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When Job answered, and said: --
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Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? --
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I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know? --
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He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. --
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The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed. --
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The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands: --
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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee. --
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Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell. --
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Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things? --
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In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. --
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Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste? --
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In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence. --
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With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. --
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If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open. --
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If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth. --
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With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived. --
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He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility. --
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He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord. --
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He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles. --
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He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged. --
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He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed. --
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He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death. --
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He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown. --
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He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way. --
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They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk. --
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