Job’s Reply to Zophar
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No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you!
3 and wisdom will die with you!
But I also have a mind;
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?(a)(A)
I am not inferior to you.
Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?(a)(A)
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The one who is at ease(C) holds calamity in contempt
and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
6 and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
The tents of robbers are safe,(D)
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.(d)(E)
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.(d)(E)
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But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;
ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.(F)
8 ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.(F)
Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you;
let the fish of the sea inform you.
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11 let the fish of the sea inform you.
Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
12 as the palate tastes food?
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When He withholds the waters, everything dries up,
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.(L)
16 and when He releases them, they destroy the land.(L)
True wisdom and power belong to Him.
The deceived and the deceiver are His.
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20 The deceived and the deceiver are His.
He deprives trusted advisers of speech
and takes away the elders’ good judgment.
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25 and takes away the elders’ good judgment.
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