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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. Who does not know such things as these?
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- I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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- In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
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- The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
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- “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
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- or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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- Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
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- In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
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- Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
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- Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
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- “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
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- If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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- If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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- With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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- He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
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- He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
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- He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.
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- He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.
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- He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.
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- He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.
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- He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
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- He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.
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- They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 4
Kétéves:
- I. év: 2Sám 16
- II. év: Hós 9
- Zsid 6:1-20
- Zsolt 105:16-36
- Péld 27:1-2
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