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Then Job answered and said ,
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No doubt but ye are the people ,
and wisdom shall die with you .
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But I have understanding as well as you ;
I am not inferior to you .
Yes ,
who does not know such things as these ?
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I am as a man who 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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In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune .
It is ready for those whose foot slips .
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The tents of robbers prosper ,
and those who provoke God are secure .
Into whose hand God brings [
abundantly ].
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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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Or speak to the earth ,
and it shall teach thee ,
and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee .
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Who does not know in all these ,
that the hand of LORD has wrought this ,
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in whose hand is the soul of every living thing ,
and the breath of all mankind ?
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Does not the ear try words ,
even as the palate tastes its food ?
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With aged men is wisdom ,
and in length of days understanding .
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With [
God ]
is wisdom and might .
He has counsel and understanding .
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Behold ,
he breaks down ,
and it cannot be built again .
He shuts up a man ,
and there can be no opening .
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Behold ,
he withholds the waters ,
and they dry up .
Again ,
he sends them out ,
and they overturn the earth .
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With him is strength and wisdom .
The deceived and the deceiver are his .
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He leads counselors away stripped ,
and he makes judges fools .
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He loosens the bond of kings ,
and he binds their loins with a belt .
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He leads priests away stripped ,
and overthrows the mighty .
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He removes the speech of the trustworthy ,
and takes away the understanding of the elders .
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He pours contempt upon rulers ,
and weakens the strength of the strong .
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He uncovers deep things out of darkness ,
and brings out to light the shadow of death .
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He increases the nations ,
and he destroys them .
He enlarges the nations ,
and he leads them captive .
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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 .
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They grope in the dark without light ,
and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man .
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Lo ,
my eye has seen all [
this ].
My ear has heard and understood it .
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What ye know ,
I also know ;
I am not inferior to you .
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Surely I would speak to the Almighty ,
and I desire to reason with God .
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But ye are forgers of lies .
Ye are all physicians of no value .
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O that ye would altogether be silent !
And it would be your wisdom .
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Hear now my reasoning ,
and hearken to the pleadings of my lips .
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Will ye speak unrighteously for God ,
and talk deceitfully for him ?
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Will ye show partiality to him ?
Will ye contend for God ?
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Is it good that he should search you out ?
Or as deceiving a man ,
will ye deceive him ?
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He will surely reprove you if ye secretly show partiality .
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Shall not his majesty make you afraid ,
and his dread fall upon you ?
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Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes .
Your defenses are defenses of clay .
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Be quiet .
Let me alone that I may speak ,
and let come on me what will .
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Why should I take my flesh in my teeth ,
and put my life in my hand ?
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Behold ,
he will kill me ;
I have no hope .
Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him .
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This also shall be my salvation ,
that a profane man shall not come before him .
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Hear diligently my speech ,
and let my declaration be in your ears .
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Behold now ,
I have set my case in order .
I know that I am righteous .
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Who is he who will contend with me ?
For then I would keep silent and give up the spirit .
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Only do not do two things to me ,
then I will not hide myself from thy face :
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Withdraw thy hand far from me ,
and do not let thy dread make me afraid .
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Then call thou ,
and I will answer ,
or let me speak ,
and answer thou me .
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How many are my iniquities and sins ?
Make me to know my transgression and my sin .
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Why do thou hide thy face ,
and reckon me for thine enemy ?
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Will thou harass a driven leaf ?
And will thou pursue the dry stubble ?
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For thou write bitter things against me ,
and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth .
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Thou also put my feet in the stocks ,
and mark all my paths .
Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet .
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Though I am like a rotten thing that decays ,
like a garment that is moth-eaten .
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Man ,
who is born of a woman ,
is of few days ,
and full of trouble .
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He comes forth like a flower ,
and is cut down .
He too flees as a shadow ,
and does not continue .
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And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one ,
and bring me into judgment with thee ?
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Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ?
Not one .
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Seeing his days are determined ,
the number of his months is with thee ,
and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass ,
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look away from him ,
that he may rest ,
till he shall accomplish ,
as a hireling ,
his day .
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For there is hope of a tree ,
if it is cut down ,
that it will sprout again ,
and that the tender branch of it will not cease .
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Though the root of it grows old in the earth ,
and the trunk of it dies in the ground ,
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yet through the scent of water it will bud ,
and put forth boughs like a plant .
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But man dies ,
and is laid low .
Yea ,
man gives up the spirit ,
and where is he ?
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the waters fail from the sea ,
and the river wastes away and dries up ,
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so man lays down and does not rise .
Till the heavens be no more ,
they shall not awake ,
nor be roused out of their sleep .
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O that thou would hide me in Sheol ,
that thou would keep me secret ,
until thy wrath be past ,
that thou would appoint for me a set time ,
and remember me !
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If a man dies ,
shall he live [
again ]?
All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come .
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Thou would call ,
and I would answer thee .
Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands .
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But now thou number my steps .
Do thou not watch over my sin ?
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My transgression is sealed up in a bag ,
and thou fasten up my iniquity .
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But the falling mountain comes to nothing ,
and the rock is removed out of its place .
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The waters wear the stones .
The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth .
So thou destroy the hope of man .
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Thou prevail forever against him ,
and he passes .
Thou change his countenance ,
and send him away .
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His sons come to honor ,
and he does not know it ,
and they are brought low ,
but he does not perceive it of them .
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But his flesh upon him has pain ,
and his soul within him mourns .
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered ,
and said ,