79 lines
2.4 KiB
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79 lines
2.4 KiB
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## Job Answers
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###### 1
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Then Job answered and said,
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###### 2
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"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
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###### 3
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But I have a heart _of wisdom_ as well as you; I do not fall _short_ of you. And who does not know such things as these?
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###### 4
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I am a laughingstock to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The righteous _and_ blameless _man_ is a laughingstock.
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###### 5
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As for upheaval, _there is only_ contempt by the one who acts at ease, _But_ it is prepared for those whose feet slip.
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###### 6
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The tents of the destroyers are complacent, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
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###### 7
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"But now ask the beasts, and let them instruct you; And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you.
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###### 8
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Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you; And let the fish of the sea recount _it_ to you.
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Who among all these does not know That the hand of Yahweh has done this,
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###### 10
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In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all the flesh of man?
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###### 11
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Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
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###### 12
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Wisdom is with aged men, _With_ long life is discernment.
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## Job Speaks of God's Strength
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###### 13
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"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and discernment.
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###### 14
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Behold, He pulls down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He closes a man in, and it cannot be opened.
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Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
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With Him are strength and sound wisdom; The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
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###### 17
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He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
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He opens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a belt.
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###### 19
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He makes priests walk barefoot And subverts the enduring ones.
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###### 20
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He removes speech from the faithful And takes away the _discerning_ taste of the elders.
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###### 21
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He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
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###### 22
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He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings out the shadows of death into light.
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###### 23
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He makes the nations great, then makes them perish; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
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He removes the heart _of wisdom_ from the heads of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
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###### 25
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They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them wander about like a drunken man.
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