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Job 12 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 12
Job Answers His Critics
Job Answers His Critics
1 Then Job answered and said:
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2 ​​“No doubt you are the people,
​​And wisdom will die with you!
3 ​​But I have understanding as well as you;
​​I am not inferior to you.
​​Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
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4 ​​“I am one mocked by his friends,
​​Who called on God, and He answered him,
​​The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
5 ​​A lamp[fn] is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;
​​It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
6 ​​The tents of robbers prosper,
​​And those who provoke God are secure—
​​In what God provides by His hand.
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7 ​​“But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
​​And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8 ​​Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;
​​And the fish of the sea will explain to you.
9 ​​Who among all these does not know
​​That the hand of the LORD has done this,
10 ​​In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
​​And the breath of all mankind?
11 ​​Does not the ear test words
​​And the mouth taste its food?
12 ​​Wisdom is with aged men,
​​And with length of days, understanding.
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13 ​​“With Him are wisdom and strength,
​​He has counsel and understanding.
14 ​​If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt;
​​If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.
15 ​​If He withholds the waters, they dry up;
​​If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.
16 ​​With Him are strength and prudence.
​​The deceived and the deceiver are His.
17 ​​He leads counselors away plundered,
​​And makes fools of the judges.
18 ​​He loosens the bonds of kings,
​​And binds their waist with a belt.
19 ​​He leads princes[fn] away plundered,
​​And overthrows the mighty.
20 ​​He deprives the trusted ones of speech,
​​And takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 ​​He pours contempt on princes,
​​And disarms the mighty.
22 ​​He uncovers deep things out of darkness,
​​And brings the shadow of death to light.
23 ​​He makes nations great, and destroys them;
​​He enlarges nations, and guides them.
24 ​​He takes away the understanding[fn] of the chiefs of the people of the earth,
​​And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.
25 ​​They grope in the dark without light,
​​And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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NKJV Footnotes
Or disaster
Literally priests, but not in a technical sense
Literally heart
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