translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Then Job answered and said,


text: No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.


text: But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?


text: I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.


text: In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.


text: The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.


text: But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:


text: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.


text: Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,


text: In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?


text: Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?


text: With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.


text: With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.


text: Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.


text: Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.


text: With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.


text: He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.


text: He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.


text: He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.


text: He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.


text: He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.


text: He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.


text: He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.


text: He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


text: They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.