Job 12

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1 Then Job answered and said:
2 truly, [only], you people, and with you wisdom will die!
3 And I [have] a heart like you; not inferior to you; and who do not know the same?
4 I was mocked for his friend, I who called upon God, and he answered, laughing-stock - [people] just upright.
5 So despised in the thought of him in peace torch, ready to slip with his feet.

6 The tents of robbers are safe and they that provoke God are like God are in their hands.
7 But ask the beasts, and you will teach the birds of heaven, and will show thee;
8 or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and tell thee, marine fish.
9 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
eleven Does not the ear try words? And the mouth taste his meat?

12 The elders - the wisdom, and in length - the mind.
13 With him is wisdom and strength; Counsel and understanding.
14 He breaks down, it can not be built; whom he concluded that not be released.
15 The waters, and they dry up; he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver.
17 He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18 He loosens the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins;
19 princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty;
20 It takes speech of the trusty, and defeats the purpose of the elders;
21 poureth contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty;
22 It reveals deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death;
23 He makes nations great, and destroys them; scatters the nations and gather them;
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 stagger like a drunken man.

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