1<\/sup>Then Job, answering, said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things?<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>He removes the belt of kings and encircles their waist with a rope.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>He leads away priests in dishonor and displaces nobles,<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>altering the lips of those who speak the truth and sweeping away the teaching of the aged.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>He pours distain upon the leaders, relieving those who had been oppressed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>He reveals the depths of the darkness, and he brings the shadow of death into the light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>He multiplies peoples, and destroys them, and, having been overthrown, he restores them anew.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>He transforms the heart of the leaders of the people on earth, and misleads those who in vain advance upon the inviolable.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.<\/span> <\/p>\n