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| | Job 12:1 | Then Job answered and said,
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| | Job 12:2 | No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
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| | Job 12:3 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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| | Job 12:4 | I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
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| | Job 12:5 | In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
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| | Job 12:6 | The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth `abundantly'.
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| | Job 12:7 | But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
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| | Job 12:8 | Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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| | Job 12:9 | Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,
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| | Job 12:10 | In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
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| | Job 12:11 | Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
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| | Job 12:12 | With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
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| | Job 12:13 | With `God' is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
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| | Job 12:14 | Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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| | Job 12:15 | Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
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| | Job 12:16 | With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
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| | Job 12:17 | He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
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| | Job 12:18 | He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.
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| | Job 12:19 | He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.
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| | Job 12:20 | He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
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| | Job 12:21 | He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.
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| | Job 12:22 | He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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| | Job 12:23 | He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
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| | Job 12:24 | He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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| | Job 12:25 | They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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