Job’s Reply to Zophar
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No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you!
3 and wisdom will die with you!
But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?(a)(A)
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?(a)(A)
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The one who is at ease(C) holds calamity in contempt
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
6 and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
The tents of robbers are safe,(D)
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.(d)(E)
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.(d)(E)
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But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;
ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.(F)
8 ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.(F)
Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you;
let the fish of the sea inform you.
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11 let the fish of the sea inform you.
Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
12 as the palate tastes food?
Footnotes:
a.
Job 12:3: Lit With whom are not such things as these
b.
Job 12:4: Lit his
c.
Job 12:4: Lit him
d.
Job 12:6: Or secure; to those who bring their god in their hands
e.
Job 12:18: Text emended; MT reads discipline
f.
Job 12:21: Lit and loosens the belt of