| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job responded, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader belong to Him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man. |
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