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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. |
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