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Job 12

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Job Maintains Himself against His Friends; Acknowledges God's Omnipotence

 
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 LORD's hand has done this, +
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in whose hand is the life of every living thing,and 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. +
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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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 waist 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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