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| 12:1 |
And Job answereth and saith: --
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| 12:2 |
Truly -- ye [are] the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
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| 12:3 |
I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
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| 12:4 |
A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
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| 12:5 |
A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
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| 12:6 |
At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
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| 12:7 |
And yet, ask, I pray thee, [One of] the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.
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| 12:8 |
Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:
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| 12:9 |
`Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?
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| 12:10 |
In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'
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| 12:11 |
Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
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| 12:12 |
With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days understanding.
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| 12:13 |
With Him [are] wisdom and might, To him [are] counsel and understanding.
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| 12:14 |
Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
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| 12:15 |
Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
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| 12:16 |
With Him [are] strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
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| 12:17 |
Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.
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| 12:18 |
The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
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| 12:19 |
Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.
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| 12:20 |
Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
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| 12:21 |
Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.
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| 12:22 |
Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.
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| 12:23 |
Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.
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| 12:24 |
Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
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| 12:25 |
They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
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