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[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 ùGod 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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