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\c 12
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\p
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\v 1 Then Job answered and said,
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\q
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\v 2 "No doubt you are the people;
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\q wisdom will die with you.
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\q
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\v 3 But I have understanding as well as you;
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\q I am not inferior to you.
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\q Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
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\q
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\v 4 I am something for my neighbor to laugh at—
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\q I, one who called on God and who was answered by him!
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\q I, a just and perfect man—I am now something to laugh at.
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\q
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\v 5 In the thought of someone who is at ease, there is contempt for misfortune;
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\q he thinks in a way that brings more misfortune to those whose foot is slipping.
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\q
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\v 6 The tents of robbers prosper,
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\q and those who provoke God feel secure;
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\q their own hands are their gods.
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\q
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\v 7 But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
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\q ask the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you.
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\q
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\v 8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;
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\q the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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\q
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\v 9 Which animal among all these does not know
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\q that the hand of Yahweh has done this—given them life—
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\q
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\v 10 Yahweh, in whose hand is the life of every living thing
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\q and the breath of all mankind?
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\q
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\v 11 Does not the ear test words
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\q just as the palate tastes its food?
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\q
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\v 12 With aged men is wisdom;
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\q in length of days is understanding.
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\v 13 With God are wisdom and might;
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\q he has good thoughts and understanding.
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\q
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\v 14 See, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again;
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\q if he imprisons someone, there can be no release.
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\q
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\v 15 See, if he withholds the waters, they dry up;
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\q and if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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\q
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\v 16 With him are strength and wisdom;
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\q people who are deceived and the deceiver are both in his power.
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\q
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\v 17 He leads counselors away barefoot in sorrow;
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\q he turns judges into fools.
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\v 18 He takes off the chain of authority from kings;
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\q he wraps a cloth about their waists.
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\q
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\v 19 He leads priests away barefoot in sorrow
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\q and overthrows mighty people.
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\v 20 He removes the speech of people who are trustworthy
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\q and takes away the understanding of the elders.
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\q
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\v 21 He pours contempt upon princes
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\q and unfastens the belt of strong people.
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\q
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\v 22 He reveals deep things from darkness
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\q and brings out to light the shadows where dead people are.
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\q
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\v 23 He makes nations strong, and he also destroys them;
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\q He enlarges nations, and he also leads them along as prisoners.
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\q
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\v 24 He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth;
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\q he causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.
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\q
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\v 25 They grope in the dark without light;
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\q he makes them stagger like a drunk man.
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