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And Job answereth and saith: --
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Truly -- ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
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I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
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A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,` A laughter is the perfect righteous one.
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A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
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At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
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And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.
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Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:
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`Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?
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In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.`
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Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
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With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.
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With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.
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Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
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Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
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With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
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Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.
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The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
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Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.
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Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
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Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.
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Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.
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Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.
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Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
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They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
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