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12:1 And Job answered and said, 12:2 Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you! 12:3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? 12:4 I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon +God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man]. 12:5 He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 12:6 The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth. 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee; 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 12:9 Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this? 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. 12:11 Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food? 12:12 With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. 12:13 With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding. 12:14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. 12:15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 12:16 With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. 12:17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; 12:18 He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; 12:19 He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; 12:20 He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders; 12:21 He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death; 12:23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in; 12:24 He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste. 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.