Job:12-14
web@Job:12:1 @Then Job answered,
web@Job:12:2 @"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
web@Job:12:3 @But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
web@Job:12:4 @I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
web@Job:12:5 @In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
web@Job:12:6 @The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
web@Job:12:7 @"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
web@Job:12:8 @Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
web@Job:12:9 @Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,
web@Job:12:10 @in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
web@Job:12:11 @Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
web@Job:12:12 @With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
web@Job:12:13 @"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
web@Job:12:14 @Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
web@Job:12:15 @Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
web@Job:12:16 @With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
web@Job:12:17 @He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
web@Job:12:18 @He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
web@Job:12:19 @He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
web@Job:12:20 @He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
web@Job:12:21 @He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
web@Job:12:22 @He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
web@Job:12:23 @He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
web@Job:12:24 @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.
web@Job:12:25 @They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
web@Job:13:1 @"Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.
web@Job:13:2 @What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
web@Job:13:3 @"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
web@Job:13:4 @But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
web@Job:13:5 @Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
web@Job:13:6 @Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
web@Job:13:7 @Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
web@Job:13:8 @Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
web@Job:13:9 @Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
web@Job:13:10 @He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
web@Job:13:11 @Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
web@Job:13:12 @Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
web@Job:13:13 @"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
web@Job:13:14 @Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
web@Job:13:15 @Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
web@Job:13:16 @This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
web@Job:13:17 @Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
web@Job:13:18 @See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
web@Job:13:19 @Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
web@Job:13:20 @"Only don't do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:
web@Job:13:21 @withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.
web@Job:13:22 @Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
web@Job:13:23 @How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
web@Job:13:24 @Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
web@Job:13:25 @Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
web@Job:13:26 @For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
web@Job:13:27 @You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
web@Job:13:28 @though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
web@Job:14:1 @"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
web@Job:14:2 @He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
web@Job:14:3 @Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
web@Job:14:4 @Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
web@Job:14:5 @Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
web@Job:14:6 @Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
web@Job:14:7 @"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
web@Job:14:8 @Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
web@Job:14:9 @yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
web@Job:14:10 @But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
web@Job:14:11 @As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
web@Job:14:12 @so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
web@Job:14:13 @"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
web@Job:14:14 @If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
web@Job:14:15 @You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
web@Job:14:16 @But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
web@Job:14:17 @My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
web@Job:14:18 @"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
web@Job:14:19 @The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
web@Job:14:20 @You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
web@Job:14:21 @His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
web@Job:14:22 @But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."
web@Job:15:1 @Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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