Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 And Job answered and said,
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Then Job answered:
2 So then ye are men, and wisdom shall die with you?
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"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 I also have a heart as well as you.
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4 For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.
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I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
5 For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be guiltless,
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Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.
6 even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition of them.
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The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.
7 But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.
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"But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8 Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.
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ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?
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Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.
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In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.
11 For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.
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Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
12 In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.
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Is wisdom with the aged, and understanding in length of days?
13 With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
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"With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding.
14 If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?
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If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
15 If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
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If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
16 With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.
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With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.
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He leads counselors away stripped, and makes fools of judges.
18 He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.
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He looses the sash of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
19 He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.
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He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.
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He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.
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He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
22 Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.
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He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
23 Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them .
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He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.
24 Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, ,
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He strips understanding from the leaders of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25 Let them grope darkness, and no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.
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They grope in the dark without light; he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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