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/><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>But I have understanding as well as you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am not inferior to you.</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Who does not know such things as these?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I am a laughingstock to my friends;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I, who called upon God and he answered me,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Those at ease have contempt for misfortune,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15204a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The tents of robbers are at peace,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and those who provoke God are secure,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who bring their god in their hands.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15205b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>“But ask the animals, and they will teach you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the birds of the air, and they will tell you;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>ask the plants of the earth,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15207c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and they will teach you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the fish of the sea will declare to you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Who among all these does not know</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has done this?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>In his hand is the life of every living thing</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the breath of every human being.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Does not the ear test words</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">as the palate tastes food?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Is wisdom with the aged,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and understanding in length of days?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>“With God<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15212d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> are wisdom and strength;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he has counsel and understanding.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>If he tears down, no one can rebuild;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>If he withholds the waters, they dry up;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>With him are strength and wisdom;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the deceived and the deceiver are his.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He leads counselors away stripped,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and makes fools of judges.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>He looses the sash of kings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and binds a waistcloth on their loins.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>He leads priests away stripped,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and overthrows the mighty.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>He deprives of speech those who are trusted,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and takes away the discernment of the elders.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>He pours contempt on princes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and looses the belt of the strong.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>He uncovers the deeps out of darkness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and brings deep darkness to light.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>He makes nations great, then destroys them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he enlarges nations, then leads them away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>He strips understanding from the leaders<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15223e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and makes them wander in a pathless waste.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>They grope in the dark without light;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he makes them stagger like a drunkard.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 12:5">Job 12:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 12:6">Job 12:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>whom God brought forth by his hand</i>; Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 12:8">Job 12:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>speak to the earth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 12:13">Job 12:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 12:24">Job 12:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb adds <i>of the people</i></span></li></ol></div> 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