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Job 12 📜 📕 ↷
Job Presents His Case
1 BUT Job answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Are you then men alone, & shall wisdom die with you?📜💬📚
3 I also have a heart even as you, neither am I inferior to you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?📜💬📚
4 He that is mocked of his friend as I, shall invocate God, and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is scorned.📜💬📚
5 The lamp contemned in the cogitations of the rich, is prepared to the time appointed.📜💬📚
6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly, whereas he hath given all things into their hands.📜💬📚
7 For ask the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.📜💬📚
8 Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee, and the fishes of the sea shall tell.📜💬📚
9 Who is ignorant that the hand of our Lord hath made all these things?📜💬📚
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of man.📜💬📚
11 Doth not the ear discern words, and the jaws of him that eateth, the taste?📜💬📚
12 In the ancients is wisdom, and in long time prudence.📜💬📚
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.📜💬📚
14 If he shall destroy, there is no man that can build: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.📜💬📚
15 If he hold in the waters, all things shall be dried: and if he send them forth, they shall overthrow the earth.📜💬📚
16 With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.📜💬📚
17 He bringeth counsellers to a foolish end, & judges to astonishment.📜💬📚
18 He looseth the belt of kings, & girdeth their reins with a cord.📜💬📚
19 He leadeth away Priests without glory, & supplanteth the great men.📜💬📚
20 Changing the lip of the true, and taking away the doctrine of the ancients.📜💬📚
21 He poureth out contempt upon Princes, relieving them that had been oppressed.📜💬📚
22 Who revealeth profound things out of darkness, and bringeth forth the shadow of death into light.📜💬📚
23 Who multiplieth nations, & destroyeth them, and restoreth the destroyed whole again.📜💬📚
24 Who changeth the heart of the Princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them, that they may go in vain where is no passage.📜💬📚
25 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them go amiss as drunken men.📜💬📚
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