Job:12-14

bbe@Job:12:1 @And Job made answer and said,

bbe@Job:12:2 @No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

bbe@Job:12:3 @But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

bbe@Job:12:4 @It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

bbe@Job:12:5 @In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

bbe@Job:12:6 @There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

bbe@Job:12:7 @But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

bbe@Job:12:8 @Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

bbe@Job:12:9 @Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?

bbe@Job:12:10 @In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.

bbe@Job:12:11 @Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?

bbe@Job:12:12 @Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

bbe@Job:12:13 @With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his

bbe@Job:12:14 @Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

bbe@Job:12:15 @Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

bbe@Job:12:16 @With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;

bbe@Job:12:17 @He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;

bbe@Job:12:18 @He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;

bbe@Job:12:19 @He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

bbe@Job:12:20 @He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

bbe@Job:12:21 @He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;

bbe@Job:12:22 @Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

bbe@Job:12:23 @Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

bbe@Job:12:24 @He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

bbe@Job:12:25 @They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

bbe@Job:13:1 @Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.

bbe@Job:13:2 @The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

bbe@Job:13:3 @But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

bbe@Job:13:4 @But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

bbe@Job:13:5 @If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

bbe@Job:13:6 @Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

bbe@Job:13:7 @Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?

bbe@Job:13:8 @Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?

bbe@Job:13:9 @Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

bbe@Job:13:10 @He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.

bbe@Job:13:11 @Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

bbe@Job:13:12 @Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

bbe@Job:13:13 @Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

bbe@Job:13:14 @I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

bbe@Job:13:15 @Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

bbe@Job:13:16 @And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,

bbe@Job:13:17 @Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.

bbe@Job:13:18 @See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

bbe@Job:13:19 @Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

bbe@Job:13:20 @Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

bbe@Job:13:21 @Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

bbe@Job:13:22 @Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

bbe@Job:13:23 @What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

bbe@Job:13:24 @Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

bbe@Job:13:25 @Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

bbe@Job:13:26 @For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

bbe@Job:13:27 @And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

bbe@Job:13:28 @Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

bbe@Job:14:1 @As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

bbe@Job:14:2 @He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

bbe@Job:14:3 @Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

bbe@Job:14:4 @If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

bbe@Job:14:5 @If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

bbe@Job:14:6 @Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

bbe@Job:14:7 @For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

bbe@Job:14:8 @Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

bbe@Job:14:9 @Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

bbe@Job:14:10 @But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

bbe@Job:14:11 @The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

bbe@Job:14:12 @So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

bbe@Job:14:13 @If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

bbe@Job:14:14 @If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

bbe@Job:14:15 @At the sound of your voice I would give an answer, and you would have a desire for the work of your hands.

bbe@Job:14:16 @For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

bbe@Job:14:17 @My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe

bbe@Job:14:18 @But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

bbe@Job:14:19 @The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

bbe@Job:14:20 @You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

bbe@Job:14:21 @His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

bbe@Job:14:22 @Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

bbe@Job:15:1 @And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

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