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          DASV: Job 12    

1 Then Job answered,
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.
     Who does not know these things?

4 I am a laughing-stock to my friends,
     I, who called on God and he answered,
     a just and blameless person, am a laughing-stock.
5 To those at ease there is contempt for misfortune;
     it is ready for them whose feet slip.
6 But the tents of robbers are at peace,
     and those who provoke God are secure;
     who bring their god in their hand.

7 But ask the animals, and they will teach you;
     the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you.
8 Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you;
     and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who among all these does not realize
     that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every living thing,
     and the breath of every human being?
11 Does not the ear test words,
     just as the tongue tastes its food?
12 Wisdom is found among aged,
     and understanding comes with length of days.

13 With God are wisdom and might;
     to him belong counsel and understanding.
14 If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt;
     if he locks someone up, there is no release.
15 If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
     if he releases them, they inundate the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom,
     both the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away stripped,
     and makes judges into fools.
18 He loosens the robe belts of kings,
     and binds a loincloth around their waist.
19 He leads priests away stripped,
     and overthrows the mighty.
20 He removes the speech of the trusted advisers,
     and takes away the discretion of the elders.
21 He pours contempt on princes,
     and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He discloses deep things out of the darkness,
     and brings the dark shadow to light.
23 He builds nations up, then destroys them.
     He enlarges nations, then leads them away captive.
24 He takes away understanding from the leaders of the earth,
     and causes them to wander in a pathless wilderness.
25 They grope in the dark without light,
     and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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