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² "Without a doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
³ I also have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these?
⁴ I am a laughingstock to my friends,
I, who called on God and whom he answered—
a righteous and blameless man
is a laughingstock!
⁵ For calamity, there is derision
(according to the ideas of the fortunate)—
a fate for those whose feet slip!
⁶ But the tents of robbers are peaceful,
and those who provoke God are confident—
who carry their god in their hands.

⁷ "But now, ask the animals and they will teach you,
or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.
⁸ Or speak to the earth and it will teach you,
or let the fish of the sea declare to you.
⁹ Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
¹⁰ in whose hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all the human race.
¹¹ Does not the ear test words,
as the tongue tastes food?
¹² Is not wisdom found among the aged?
Does not long life bring understanding?
¹³ "With God are wisdom and power;
counsel and understanding are his.
¹⁴ If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt;
if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.
¹⁵ If he holds back the waters, then they dry up;
if he releases them, they destroy the land.
¹⁶ With him are strength and prudence;
both the one who goes astray
and the one who misleads are his.
¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped
and makes judges into fools.
¹⁸ He loosens the bonds of kings
and binds a loincloth around their waist.
¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows the potentates.
²⁰ He deprives the trusted advisers of speech
and takes away the discernment of elders.
²¹ He pours contempt on noblemen
and disarms the powerful.
²² He reveals the deep things of darkness,
and brings deep shadows into the light.
²³ He makes nations great, and destroys them;
he extends the boundaries of nations
and disperses them.
²⁴ He deprives the leaders of the earth
of their understanding;
he makes them wander
in a trackless desert waste.
²⁵ They grope about in darkness without light;
he makes them stagger like drunkards.