- 1. And Job answered and said,
- 2. Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
- 3. I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
- 4. I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
- 5. He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
- 6. The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke �God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
- 7. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;
- 8. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
- 9. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?
- 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
- 11. Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?
- 12. With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
- 13. With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
- 14. Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
- 15. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- 16. With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
- 17. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;
- 18. He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;
- 19. He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty;
- 20. He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;
- 21. He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;
- 22. He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;
- 23. He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in;
- 24. He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.
- 25. They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.
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