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| 1 Then responded Job, and said:– |
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| 2 Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die. |
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| 3 I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these? |
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| 4 A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock–a righteous man without blame! |
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| 5 For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease,–ready, for such as are of faltering foot! |
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| 6 At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand. |
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| 7 But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee; |
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| 8 Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to thee: |
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| 9 Who knoweth not, among all these, that, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this? |
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| 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of men. |
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? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food? |
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| 12 In the Ancient, is wisdom, and [in] Length of Days, understanding: |
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| 13 With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding. |
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| 14 Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened: |
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| 15 Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth: |
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| 16 With Him, is strength and effective wisdom, to Him, belong he that erreth, and he that causeth to err. |
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| 17 Who leadeth away counselors [as] a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth: |
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| 18 The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins: |
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| 19 Who leadeth away priests [as] a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth: |
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| 20 Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away: |
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| 21 Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed: |
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| 22 Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade: |
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| 23 Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile: |
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| 24 Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste: |
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| 25 They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man. |
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