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| 1 And Job answered and said, |
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| 2 Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you! |
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| 3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? |
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| 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 man2. |
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| 5 He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. |
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| 6 The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke *God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth. |
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| 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee; |
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| 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. |
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| 9 Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this? |
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| 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. |
In whose hand – In the divine power. E314
And the breath – Ruach, life-power, spirit of life. E174, E314
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| 11 Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food? |
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| 12 With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. |
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| 13 With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding. |
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| 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. |
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| 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. |
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| 16 With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. |
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| 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; |
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| 18 He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; |
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| 19 He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; |
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| 20 He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders; |
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| 21 He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; |
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| 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death; |
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| 23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in; |
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| 24 He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste. |
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| 25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard. |
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