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¹ Then Job answered and said,² No doubt but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?⁴ I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called on God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.⁵ In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slips.

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, And those that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell you:⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; And the fish of the sea shall declare to you.⁹ Who doesn't know in all these, That the hand of Yahweh has wrought this,¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?¹¹ Does not the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?

¹² With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.¹³ With [God] is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.¹⁴ Look, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.¹⁵ Look, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.¹⁷ He leads counselors away stripped, And judges he makes fools.¹⁸ He looses the authority of kings, and he binds their loins with a girdle.¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.²⁰ He removes the speech of the trusty, And takes away the understanding of the elders.²¹ He pours contempt on princes, And looses the belt of the strong.²² He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.²³ He increases the nations, and he destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.²⁴ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.²⁵ They grope in the dark without light; And he makes them to stagger like a drunk man.