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Jó 12 — Bíblia English Standard Version, 2016 | Gospelmais
25 versículos · English Standard Version, 2016
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1Then Job answered and said:
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1Job answered:
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2“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
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2"I'm sure you speak for all the experts,and when you die there'll be no one left to tell us how to live.
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3But 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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3But don't forget that I also have a brain—I don't intend to play second fiddle to you.It doesn't take an expert to know these things.
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4I 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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4"I'm ridiculed by my friends:'So that's the man who had conversations with God!'Ridiculed without mercy:'Look at the man who never did wrong!'
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5In 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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5It's easy for the well-to-do to point their fingers in blame,for the well-fixed to pour scorn on the strugglers.
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6The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
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6Crooks reside safely in high-security houses,insolent blasphemers live in luxury;they've bought and paid for a god who'll protect them.
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7“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
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7"But ask the animals what they think—let them teach you;let the birds tell you what's going on.
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8or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
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8Put your ear to the earth—learn the basics.Listen—the fish in the ocean will tell you their stories.
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9Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
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9Isn't it clear that they all know and agreethat God is sovereign, that he holds all things in his hand—
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10In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
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10Every living soul, yes,every breathing creature?
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11Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
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11Isn't this all just common sense,as common as the sense of taste?
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12Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
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12Do you think the elderly have a corner on wisdom,that you have to grow old before you understand life?
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13“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
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13"True wisdom and real power belong to God;from him we learn how to live,and also what to live for.
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14If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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14If he tears something down, it's down for good;if he locks people up, they're locked up for good.
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15If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
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15If he holds back the rain, there's a drought;if he lets it loose, there's a flood.
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16With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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16Strength and success belong to God;both deceived and deceiver must answer to him.
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17He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
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17He strips experts of their vaunted credentials,exposes judges as witless fools.
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18He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
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18He divests kings of their royal garments,then ties a rag around their waists.
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19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.
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19He strips priests of their robes,and fires high officials from their jobs.
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20He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.
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20He forces trusted sages to keep silence,deprives elders of their good sense and wisdom.
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21He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.
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21He dumps contempt on famous people,disarms the strong and mighty.
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22He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.
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22He shines a spotlight into caves of darkness,hauls deepest darkness into the noonday sun.
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23He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
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23He makes nations rise and then fall,builds up some and abandons others.
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24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.
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24He robs world leaders of their reason,and sends them off into no man's land.
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25They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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25They grope in the dark without a clue,lurching and staggering like drunks.