Job Chides His Accusers
Then Job 1responded,Lit answered and said
2 “Truly then ayou are the people,And with you wisdom will die!Job 17:103 “But aI have intelligence as well as you;I am not inferior to you.And 1who does not know such things as these?Lit with whom is there not like these?Job 13:24 “I am a ajoke to 1my friends,The one who called on God and He answered him;The just and bblameless man is a joke.Lit hisJob 17:6; 30:1, 9, 10; 34:7Job 6:295 “1He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt,As prepared for those whose feet slip.Lit Contempt for calamity is the thought of him who is at ease6 “The atents of the destroyers prosper,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 teach you;And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.8 “Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you;And let the fish of the sea declare to you.9 “Who among all these does not knowThat athe hand of the LORD has done this,Is 41:2010 aIn whose hand is the life of every living thing,And bthe breath of all mankind?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 understanding.Lit length of daysJob 15:10; 32:7
Job Speaks of the Power of God
13 “With Him are awisdom and bmight;To Him belong counsel and cunderstanding.Job 9:4Job 11:6; 26:12; 32:8; 36:5; 38:3614 “Behold, He atears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;He 1bimprisons a man, and 2there can be no release.Lit shuts againstLit it is not openedJob 19:10; Is 25:2Job 37:715 “Behold, He arestrains the waters, and they dry up;And He bsends them out, and they 1inundate the earth.Lit overturnDeut 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 aloosens the 1bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a girdle.Or disciplinePs 116:1619 “He makes priests walk 1barefootAnd overthrows athe secure ones.Or strippedJob 24:22; 34:24-28; 35:920 “He deprives the trusted ones of speechAnd atakes away the discernment 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 the deep darkness into light.Dan 2:22; 1 Cor 4:523 “He amakes the nations great, then destroys them;He 1enlarges the nations, then leads them away.Or spreads outIs 9:3; 26:1524 “He adeprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s peopleAnd makes them wander in a pathless waste.Job 12:2025 “They agrope in darkness with no light,And He makes them bstagger like a drunken man.Job 5:14Is 24:20