|
|
1. Then Job answered,
|
1.
|
2. "No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
|
2.
|
3. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
|
3.
|
4. I 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.
|
4.
|
5. In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.
|
5.
|
6. The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.
|
6.
|
7. "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
|
7.
|
8. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
|
8.
|
9. Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this,
|
9.
|
10. In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?
|
10.
|
11. Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
|
11.
|
12. With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.
|
12.
|
13. "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
|
13.
|
14. Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
|
14.
|
15. Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
|
15.
|
16. With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
|
16.
|
17. He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
|
17.
|
18. He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
|
18.
|
19. He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
|
19.
|
20. He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
|
20.
|
21. He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.
|
21.
|
22. He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.
|
22.
|
23. He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
|
23.
|
24. He 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.
|
24.
|
25. They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
|
25.
|