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Job - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- Then Job answered,
- "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
- But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
- 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.
- In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
- The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
- "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
- Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
- Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,
- in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
- Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
- With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
- "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
- Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
- Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
- With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
- He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
- He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
- He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
- He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
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