Job 12:1-25 - Job's Fourth Speech
1 Then Job answered:
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and wisdom will die with you!
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?
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by calling on God, who answers me.
The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.
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ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
let the fish of the sea inform you.
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
as well as the breath of all mankind.
as the palate tastes food?
and understanding comes with long life.
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counsel and understanding are His.
whoever He imprisons cannot be released.
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.
and makes judges go mad.
and fastens a belt around their waists.
and overthrows established leaders.
and takes away the elders’ good judgment.
and disarms
and brings the deepest darkness into the light.
He enlarges nations,
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
He makes them stagger like drunken men.
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