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| | Job 12:1 | Then Job answered:
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| | Job 12:2 | "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
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| | Job 12:3 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
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| | Job 12:4 | I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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| | Job 12:5 | In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
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| | Job 12:6 | The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
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| | Job 12:7 | "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
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| | Job 12:8 | or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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| | Job 12:9 | Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
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| | Job 12:10 | In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
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| | Job 12:11 | Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
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| | Job 12:12 | Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
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| | Job 12:13 | "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
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| | Job 12:14 | If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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| | Job 12:15 | If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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| | Job 12:16 | With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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| | Job 12:17 | He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
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| | Job 12:18 | He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
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| | Job 12:19 | He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
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| | Job 12:20 | He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
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| | Job 12:21 | He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
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| | Job 12:22 | He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
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| | Job 12:23 | He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
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| | Job 12:24 | He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
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| | Job 12:25 | They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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