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| | Job 12:1 | Then Job spoke again:
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| | Job 12:2 | "You really know everything, don't you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
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| | Job 12:3 | Well, I know a few things myself--and you're no better than I am. Who doesn't know these things you've been saying?
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| | Job 12:4 | Yet my friends laugh at me. I am a man who calls on God and receives an answer. I am a just and blameless man, yet they laugh at me.
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| | Job 12:5 | People who are at ease mock those in trouble. They give a push to people who are stumbling.
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| | Job 12:6 | But even robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God--and God has them in his power--live in safety!
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| | Job 12:7 | "Ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
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| | Job 12:8 | Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish of the sea speak to you.
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| | Job 12:9 | They all know that the LORD has done this.
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| | Job 12:10 | For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of all humanity.
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| | Job 12:11 | Just as the mouth tastes good food, so the ear tests the words it hears.
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| | Job 12:12 | Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to those who have lived many years.
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| | Job 12:13 | "But true wisdom and power are with God; counsel and understanding are his.
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| | Job 12:14 | What he destroys cannot be rebuilt. When he closes in on someone, there is no escape.
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| | Job 12:15 | If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.
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| | Job 12:16 | "Yes, strength and wisdom are with him; deceivers and deceived are both in his power.
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| | Job 12:17 | He leads counselors away stripped of good judgment; he drives judges to madness.
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| | Job 12:18 | He removes the royal robe of kings. With ropes around their waist, they are led away.
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| | Job 12:19 | He leads priests away stripped of status; he overthrows the mighty.
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| | Job 12:20 | He silences the trusted adviser, and he removes the insight of the elders.
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| | Job 12:21 | He pours disgrace upon princes and confiscates weapons from the strong.
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| | Job 12:22 | "He floods the darkness with light; he brings light to the deepest gloom.
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| | Job 12:23 | He raises up nations, and he destroys them. He makes nations expand, and he abandons them.
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| | Job 12:24 | He takes away the understanding of kings, and he leaves them wandering in a wasteland without a path.
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| | Job 12:25 | They grope in the darkness without a light. He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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