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Then Job answered and said:
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"No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
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"I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
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A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; It is made ready for those whose feet slip.
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The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure-- In what God provides by His hand.
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"But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
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Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you.
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Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,