Job Answers
Then Job answered and said,
2 “Truly then ayou are the people,And with you wisdom will die!Job 17:103 “But aI have a heart of wisdom as well as you;I do not fall short of you.And 1who does not know such things as these?Lit with whom is there not like these?Job 13:24 “I am a alaughingstock to 1my friends,The one who called on God and He answered him;The righteous and bblameless man is a laughingstock.Lit hisJob 17:6; 30:1, 9, 10; 34:7Job 6:295 “1As for upheaval, there is only contempt by the one who acts at ease,But it is prepared for those whose feet slip.Lit Contempt for calamity is the thought of him who is at ease6 “The atents of the destroyers are complacent,And those who provoke God bare secure,1Whom God brings cinto their power.Or He who brings God into his handJob 9:24; 21:7-9Job 24:23Job 22:18
7 “But now ask the beasts, and let them instruct you;And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you.8 “Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you;And let the fish of the sea recount it to you.9 “Who among all these does not knowThat athe hand of Yahweh has done this,Is 41:2010 aIn whose hand is the life of every living thing,And bthe breath of all the flesh of man?Acts 17:28Job 27:3; 33:411 “Does not athe ear test words,As the palate 1tastes its food?Lit tastes food for itselfJob 34:312 “Wisdom is with aaged men,With 1long life is discernment.Lit length of daysJob 15:10; 32:7
Job Speaks of God’s Strength
13 “With Him are awisdom and bmight;To Him belong counsel and cdiscernment.Job 9:4Job 11:6; 26:12; 32:8; 36:5; 38:3614 “Behold, He apulls down, and it cannot be rebuilt;He bcloses a man in, and it cannot be opened.Job 19:10; Is 25:2Job 37:715 “Behold, He arestrains the waters, and they dry up;And He bsends them out, and they overturn the earth.Deut 11:17; 1 Kin 8:35; 17:1Gen 7:11-2416 “With Him are strength and sound wisdom;The amisled and the misleader belong to Him.Job 13:7, 917 “He makes acounselors walk 1barefootAnd makes fools of bjudges.Or strippedJob 3:14Job 9:2418 “He aopens the 1bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a belt.Or disciplinePs 116:1619 “He makes priests walk 1barefootAnd subverts athe enduring ones.Or strippedJob 24:22; 34:24-28; 35:920 “He removes speech from the faithfulAnd atakes away the discerning taste of the elders.Job 17:4; 32:921 “He apours contempt on noblesAnd bloosens the belt of the strong.Job 34:19; Ps 107:40Job 12:1822 “He areveals mysteries from the darknessAnd brings out the shadows of death into light.Dan 2:22; 1 Cor 4:523 “He amakes the nations great, then makes them perish;He 1enlarges the nations, then leads them away.Or spreads outIs 9:3; 26:1524 “He aremoves the heart of wisdom from the heads of the earth’s peopleAnd makes them wander in a pathless 1waste.Or formlessnessJob 12:2025 “They agrope in darkness with no light,And He makes them bwander about like a drunken man.Job 5:14Is 24:20