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1 - Then Job answered,

2 - “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

3 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

4 - I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5 - In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6 - The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

7 - “But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

8 - Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

9 - Who doesn’t know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

10 - in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

11 - Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

12 - With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

13 - “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

14 - Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

15 - Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

16 - With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17 - He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

18 - He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

19 - He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

20 - He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

21 - He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

22 - He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

23 - He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

24 - He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25 - They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.