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² "Truly indeed you^[b] are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.^[c]
3 I also have insight^[d] like you;^[e]
I am not more inferior than you.^[f]
And who does not know things like these?^[g]
4 I am a laughingstock to my friends:^[h]
‘He calls on God, and he answers him.'
A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.
⁵ Those at ease have contempt^[i] for the thought of disaster,^[j]
but it is ready for those unstable of foot.
⁶ The tents of the destroyers are at peace,
and there is security for those who provoke God,
for those whom God brings into his hand.^[k]
7 "But^[l] ask^[m] the animals, and they will teach you,
and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;
⁸ or ask the earth, and it will teach you,
and the fishes of the sea will declare to you.
⁹ Who among all of these does not know
that Yahweh's hand has done this?
¹⁰ In whose hand is the life of all living things
and the breath of every human being?^[n]
11 Does not the ear test words
and the palate taste food for itself?
¹² Wisdom is with the aged,
and understanding is in length of days.
¹³ "With him are wisdom and powerful deeds,
and to him belong counsel and understanding.
¹⁴ If he tears down, then^[o] it will not be rebuilt;
if he shuts a man in, then^[p] he cannot be freed.
¹⁵ Look, if he withholds the water,^[q] then^[r] they dry up;
and if he sends them out, then^[s] they overwhelm the land.
¹⁶ "Strength and sound wisdom are with him;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.^[t]
17 He leads counselors away stripped,
and he makes fools of judges.
¹⁸ He loosens the fetters of kings,
and he binds a loincloth on their loins.
¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped,
and he overthrows the members of ancient families.^[u]
20 He deprives the trustworthy of speech,
and he takes away the discretion of elders.
²¹ He pours contempt on noblemen,
and he loosens the girdle of the mighty.
²² "He uncovers mysteries out of darkness,
and he brings deep shadow to the light.
²³ He makes the nations great, then^[v] he destroys them;
he expands the nations, then^[w] he guides them.
²⁴ He strips away the insight of the heads of the earth's people,
and he makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.^[x]
25 They grope in the dark without^[y] light,
and he makes them stagger like a^[z] drunkard.