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