{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 12,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "And Job answered and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man."
  }
 ],
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}