Job:12-14
updv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered and said,
updv@Job:12:2 @ No doubt but you(note:){+}(:note) are the people, And wisdom will die with you{+}.
updv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you(note:){+}(:note); I am not inferior to you{+}: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
updv@Job:12:4 @ I am as one who is a laughingstock to his fellow man, I who called on God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughingstock.
updv@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.
updv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
updv@Job:12:7 @ But ask now the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you:
updv@Job:12:8 @ Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will declare to you.
updv@Job:12:9 @ Who doesn't know in all these, That the hand of Yahweh has wrought this,
updv@Job:12:10 @ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
updv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
updv@Job:12:12 @ With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
updv@Job:12:13 @ With [God] is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.
updv@Job:12:14 @ Look, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
updv@Job:12:15 @ Look, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
updv@Job:12:16 @ With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
updv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, And judges he makes fools.
updv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the authority of kings, And he binds their loins with a belt.
updv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
updv@Job:12:20 @ He removes the speech of the trusty, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
updv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, And looses the belt of the strong.
updv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
updv@Job:12:23 @ He increases the nations, and he destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
updv@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.
updv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; And he makes them to stagger like a drunk man.
updv@Job:13:1 @ Look, my eye has seen all [this], My ear has heard and understood it.
updv@Job:13:2 @ What you(note:){+}(:note) know, [the same] do I know also: I am not inferior to you{+}.
updv@Job:13:3 @ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
updv@Job:13:4 @ But you(note:){+}(:note) are forgers of lies; You{+} are all physicians of no value.
updv@Job:13:5 @ Oh that you(note:){+}(:note) would altogether hold your{+} peace! And it would be your{+} wisdom.
updv@Job:13:6 @ Hear now my reasoning, And listen to the pleadings of my lips.
updv@Job:13:7 @ Will you(note:){+}(:note) speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?
updv@Job:13:8 @ Will you(note:){+}(:note) show partiality to him? Will you{+} contend for God?
updv@Job:13:9 @ Is it good that he should search you(note:){+}(:note) out? Or as one deceives common man, will you{+} deceive him?
updv@Job:13:10 @ He will surely reprove you(note:){+}(:note), If you{+} secretly show partiality.
updv@Job:13:11 @ Will not his majesty make you(note:){+}(:note) afraid, And his dread fall on you{+}?
updv@Job:13:12 @ Your(note:){+}(:note) memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your{+} defenses are defenses of clay.
updv@Job:13:13 @ Hold your(note:){+}(:note) peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come upon me what will.
updv@Job:13:14 @ Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
updv@Job:13:15 @ Look, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
updv@Job:13:16 @ This also will be my salvation, That a godless man will not come before him.
updv@Job:13:17 @ Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your(note:){+}(:note) ears.
updv@Job:13:18 @ Look now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
updv@Job:13:19 @ Who is he that will contend with me? For then I would hold my peace and give up the ghost.
updv@Job:13:20 @ Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
updv@Job:13:21 @ Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
updv@Job:13:22 @ Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer me.
updv@Job:13:23 @ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
updv@Job:13:24 @ Why do you hide your face, And hold me for your enemy?
updv@Job:13:25 @ Will you harass a driven leaf? And will you pursue the dry stubble?
updv@Job:13:26 @ For you write bitter things against me, And make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
updv@Job:13:27 @ You put my feet also in the stocks, And mark all my paths; You set a bound to the soles of my feet:
updv@Job:13:28 @ Though I am like a rotten thing that consumes, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
updv@Job:14:1 @ Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
updv@Job:14:2 @ He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: He flees also as a shadow, and does not continue.
updv@Job:14:3 @ And do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
updv@Job:14:4 @ Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
updv@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;
updv@Job:14:6 @ Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he will accomplish, as a hired worker, his day.
updv@Job:14:7 @ For there is hope of a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender branch will not cease.
updv@Job:14:8 @ Though its root waxes old in the earth, And its stock dies in the ground;
updv@Job:14:9 @ Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
updv@Job:14:10 @ But [noble] man dies, and is laid low: Yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
updv@Job:14:11 @ [As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up;
updv@Job:14:12 @ So man lies down and does not rise: Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
updv@Job:14:13 @ Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
updv@Job:14:14 @ If a [noble] man die, will he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait, Until my release should come.
updv@Job:14:15 @ You would call, and I would answer you: You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
updv@Job:14:16 @ But now you number my steps: Don't you watch over my sin?
updv@Job:14:17 @ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And you fasten up my iniquity.
updv@Job:14:18 @ But the mountain falling comes to nothing; And the rock is removed out of its place;
updv@Job:14:19 @ The waters wear the stones; The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of common man.
updv@Job:14:20 @ You prevail forever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance, and send him away.
updv@Job:14:21 @ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; And they are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
updv@Job:14:22 @ But his flesh on him has pain, And his soul inside him mourns.
updv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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