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Job 11

The Book of Job

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Chapter 12

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  Then Job answered,  

 

 

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  'No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.  

 

 

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  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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  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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  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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  The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.  

 

 

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  'But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.  

 

 

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  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.  

 

 

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  Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this,  

 

 

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  In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?  

 

 

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  Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?  

 

 

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  With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.  

 

 

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  'With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.  

 

 

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  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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  Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.  

 

 

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  With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.  

 

 

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  He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.  

 

 

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  He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.  

 

 

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  He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.  

 

 

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  He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding 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 deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.  

 

 

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  He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.  

 

 

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  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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  They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.  

 

 

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