1Then Job answered,

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2"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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Job 17:10, 1 Corinthians 6:5, Job 11:12, Proverbs 28:11, Job 11:2

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

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Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 6:6

4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

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Job 21:3, Job 17:6, Psalms 91:15, Job 30:1, Job 21:3

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

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Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5, Proverbs 13:9, Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5

6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

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Job 9:24, Job 9:24, Psalms 73:11, Psalms 73:12, Job 21:7

7"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

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Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 1:3, Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 6:6, Jeremiah 8:7

8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

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9Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of the Lord has done this,

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Isaiah 41:20, Isaiah 41:20, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Romans 11:36

10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

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Acts 17:28, Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Job 33:4, Numbers 16:22

11Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

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Job 34:3, Job 34:3, Philippians 1:10, Hebrews 5:14, Job 6:30

12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

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Job 32:7, Job 32:7, Job 15:10, Job 15:10, Job 8:8

13"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

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Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Proverbs 2:6

14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

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Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Malachi 1:4

15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Job 12:10, Luke 4:25, James 5:17

16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

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Job 13:9, Ezekiel 14:9, 1 Kings 22:22, 1 Kings 22:23, Job 13:9

17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

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Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 29:14, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:19

18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

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Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:21, Jeremiah 52:31, Jeremiah 52:34, Psalms 116:16

19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

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Revelation 17:14, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 37:38, Joshua 10:42, Job 24:22

20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

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Job 32:9, Job 32:9, Job 17:4, Job 12:24, Job 17:4

21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

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Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:22, Isaiah 24:21

22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

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Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:22, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 2:10

23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

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Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Psalms 107:38

24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

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Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Job 12:20, Job 12:20, Hosea 7:11

25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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Job 5:14, Job 5:14, Psalms 107:27, Psalms 107:27, Isaiah 19:14