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Job 12:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his. "

Job 12:16

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14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

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Job 12:1

"Then Job answered,"

Job 12:2

"“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you."

Job 12:3

"But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?"

Job 12:4

"I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke."

Job 12:5

"In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips."

Job 12:6

"The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands."

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