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Job 12:1 |
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Then Job answered and said, |
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Job 12:2 |
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No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall
die with you. |
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Job 12:3 |
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am
not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these? |
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Job 12:4 |
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I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his
neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is
a laughing-stock. |
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Job 12:5 |
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In the thought of him that is at ease there
is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth. |
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Job 12:6 |
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The tents of robbers prosper, And they that
provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. |
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Job 12:7 |
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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach
thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee: |
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Job 12:8 |
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Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee;
And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. |
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Job 12:9 |
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Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand
of Jehovah hath wrought this, |
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Job 12:10 |
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In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
And the breath of all mankind? |
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Job 12:11 |
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Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate
tasteth its food? |
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Job 12:12 |
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With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days
understanding. |
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Job 12:13 |
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With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel
and understanding. |
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Job 12:14 |
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Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built
again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. |
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Job 12:15 |
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Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they
dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. |
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Job 12:16 |
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With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived
and the deceiver are his. |
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Job 12:17 |
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He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges
maketh he fools. |
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Job 12:18 |
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He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth
their loins with a girdle. |
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Job 12:19 |
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He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth
the mighty. |
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Job 12:20 |
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He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh
away the understanding of the elders. |
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Job 12:21 |
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He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth
the belt of the strong. |
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Job 12:22 |
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He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And
bringeth out to light the shadow of death. |
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Job 12:23 |
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He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth
them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive. |
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Job 12:24 |
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He taketh away understanding from the chiefs
of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there
is no way. |
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Job 12:25 |
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They grope in the dark without light; And he
maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. |
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