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| [1]And Job answered and said, |
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| [2]So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you? |
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| [3]But I also have a heart as well as you. |
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| [4]For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery. |
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| [5]For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be held guiltless, |
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| [6]even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them. |
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| [7]But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee. |
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| [8]Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee. |
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| [9]Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them? |
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| [10]Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man. |
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| [11]For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats. |
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| [12]In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge. |
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| [13]With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding. |
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| [14]If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open? |
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| [15]If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it. |
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| [16]With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding. |
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| [17]He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth. |
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| [18]He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle. |
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| [19]He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth. |
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| [20]He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders. |
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| [21]He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly. |
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| [22]Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death. |
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| [23]Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them away. |
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| [24]Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, saying, |
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| [25]Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man. |
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