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The Book of Job.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

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[1]	THEN Job answered and said,
[2]	No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
[3]	But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
[4]	I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
[5]	In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
[6]	The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into 1 whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

[7]	But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
[8]	Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
[9]	Who knoweth not in 2 all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,
[10]	In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath 3 of all mankind?
[11]	Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
[12]	With 4 aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.

[13]	With God 5 is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
[14]	Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
[15]	Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
[16]	With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
[17]	He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
[18]	He looseth the bond of kings, And bindeth their loins with a girdle.
[19]	He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.
[20]	He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
[21]	He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.
[22]	He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
[23]	He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
[24]	He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, 6 And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
[25]	They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger 7 like a drunken man.

Note 1. Or, That bring their god in their hand. [back]

Note 2. Or, by. [back]

Note 3. Or, spirit. [back]

Note 4. Or, With aged men, ye say, is wisdom. [back]

Note 5. Heb. him. [back]

Note 6. Or, land. [back]

Note 7. Heb. wander. [back]

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