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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 answered,
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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, but you are the people, and wisdom shall 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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3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t 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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4I 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.
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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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5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
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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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6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
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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“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall 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 shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall 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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9Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand 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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11Doesn’t the ear try words, even 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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12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days 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“With God is 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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14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. 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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15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
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16Strength and success belong to God;both deceived and deceiver must answer to him.
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16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
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17He strips experts of their vaunted credentials,exposes judges as witless fools.
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17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
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18He divests kings of their royal garments,then ties a rag around their waists.
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18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
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19He strips priests of their robes,and fires high officials from their jobs.
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19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
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20He forces trusted sages to keep silence,deprives elders of their good sense and wisdom.
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20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
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21He dumps contempt on famous people,disarms the strong and mighty.
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21He pours contempt on princes, 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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22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
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23He makes nations rise and then fall,builds up some and abandons others.
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23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
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24He robs world leaders of their reason,and sends them off into no man's land.
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24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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25They grope in the dark without a clue,lurching and staggering like drunks.
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25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.