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Jó 12 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
25 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1Job answered:
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1Then Job responded,
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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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2"No doubt you are the people , And wisdom will die with you!
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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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3"But I have intelligence and understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these ?
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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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4"I am a joke to my friends; I, one whom God answered when he called upon Him— A just and blameless man is a joke .
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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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5"He who is at ease has contempt for misfortune, But misfortune is ready for those whose feet slip.
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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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6"The tents of the destroyers prosper; And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
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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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7"Now ask the animals, and let them teach you ; And ask the birds of the air, and let them tell 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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8Or speak to the earth , and it will teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
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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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9"Who among all these does not recognize That the hand of the LORD has done this,
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10Every living soul, yes,every breathing creature?
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10In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
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11Isn't this all just common sense,as common as the sense of taste?
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11"Does the ear not put words to the test, Just as the palate tastes its food ?
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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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12"With the aged is wisdom, And with long life is 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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13"But with Him are wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.
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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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14"Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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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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15"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.
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16Strength and success belong to God;both deceived and deceiver must answer to him.
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16"With Him are might and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader are His .
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17He strips experts of their vaunted credentials,exposes judges as witless fools.
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17"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
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18He divests kings of their royal garments,then ties a rag around their waists.
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18"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a loincloth.
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19He strips priests of their robes,and fires high officials from their jobs.
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19"He makes priests walk barefoot, And He overturns men firmly seated and secure.
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20He forces trusted sages to keep silence,deprives elders of their good sense and wisdom.
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20"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment and discretion of the aged.
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21He dumps contempt on famous people,disarms the strong and mighty.
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21"He pours contempt on princes and nobles And loosens the belt of the strong .
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22He shines a spotlight into caves of darkness,hauls deepest darkness into the noonday sun.
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22"He uncovers mysteries out of the darkness And brings black gloom and the shadow of death into light.
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23He makes nations rise and then fall,builds up some and abandons others.
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23"He makes nations great, and He destroys them; He enlarges nations, and leads them away .
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24He robs world leaders of their reason,and sends them off into no man's land.
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24"He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth And makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.
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25They grope in the dark without a clue,lurching and staggering like drunks.
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25"They grope in darkness without light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man."