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Job 12

Job Chides His Accusers

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Then Job  1responded,

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"Truly then  ayou are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

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"But  aI have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And  1who does not know such things as these?

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"I am a  ajoke to  1my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and  bblameless man is a joke.

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1He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.

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"The  atents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God  bare secure,  1Whom God brings  cinto their power.

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"But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.

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"Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

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"Who among all these does not know That  athe hand of the LORD has done this,

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 aIn whose hand is the life of every living thing, And  bthe breath of all mankind?

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"Does not  athe ear test words, As the palate  1tastes its food?

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"Wisdom is with  aaged men, With  1long life is understanding.

Job Speaks of the Power of God

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"With Him are  awisdom and  amight; To Him belong counsel and  bunderstanding.

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"Behold, He  atears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He  1 bimprisons a man, and  2there can be no release.

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"Behold, He  arestrains the waters, and they dry up; And He  bsends them out, and they  1inundate the earth.

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"With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The  amisled and the misleader belong to Him.

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"He makes  acounselors walk  1barefoot And makes fools of  bjudges.

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"He  aloosens the  1bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.

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"He makes priests walk  1barefoot And overthrows  athe secure ones.

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"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And  atakes away the discernment of the elders.

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"He  apours contempt on nobles And  bloosens the belt of the strong.

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"He  areveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.

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"He  amakes the nations great, then destroys them; He  1enlarges the nations, then leads them away.

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"He  adeprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

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"They  agrope in darkness with no light, And He makes them  bstagger like a drunken man.



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