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- Then Job responded,
- "Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
- "But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
- "I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
- "He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
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- "The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
- "But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
- "Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
- "Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this,
- In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
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- "Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
- "Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
- "With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.
- "Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
- "Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
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- "With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
- "He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
- "He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.
- "He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
- "He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
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- "He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
- "He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.
- "He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
- "He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
- "They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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