121Then Job answered and said,+2No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.+3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?+4I 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.+5In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.+6The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].+7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:+8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.+9Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,+10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?+11Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?+12With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.+13With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.+14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.+15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.+16With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.+17He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.+18He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.+19He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.+20He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.+21He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.+22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.+23He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.+24He 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.+25They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.+
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