Job 12:1-6

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Job Replies: The Lord Has Done This

12 Then Job answered and said:

²“No doubt you are the people,
    and wisdom will die with you.
³But I have ^(A)understanding as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know ^(B)such things as these?
⁴I am ^(C)a laughingstock to my friends;
    I, who ^(D)called to God and he answered me,
    a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
⁵In the thought of one who is ^(E)at ease there is contempt for misfortune;
    it is ready for those whose feet slip.
⁶^(F)The tents of robbers are at peace,
    and those who provoke God are secure,
    who bring their god in their hand.^[a]

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Job 12:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Job 12:13-25

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¹³^(A)“With God^[a] are wisdom and might;
    he has counsel and understanding.
¹⁴If he tears down, none can rebuild;
    if he ^(B)shuts a man in, none can open.
¹⁵If he ^(C)withholds the waters, they dry up;
    if he ^(D)sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
¹⁶With him are strength and ^(E)sound wisdom;
    the deceived and the deceiver are his.
¹⁷He leads ^(F)counselors away stripped,
    and ^(G)judges he makes fools.
¹⁸He ^(H)looses the bonds of kings
    and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
¹⁹He leads priests away stripped
    and overthrows the mighty.
²⁰He deprives of speech those who are trusted
    ^(I)and takes away the discernment of the elders.
²¹He ^(J)pours contempt on princes
    and loosens the belt of the strong.
²²He ^(K)uncovers the deeps out of darkness
    and brings ^(L)deep darkness to light.
²³He ^(M)makes nations great, and he destroys them;
    he enlarges nations, and ^(N)leads them away.
²⁴He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
    and ^(O)makes them wander in a trackless waste.
²⁵They ^(P)grope in the dark without light,
    and he makes them ^(Q)stagger like a drunken man.

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Job 12:13 Hebrew him

Acts 11:19-30

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The Church in Antioch

¹⁹^(A)Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews. ²⁰But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists^[a] also, ^(B)preaching the Lord Jesus. ²¹And ^(C)the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed ^(D)turned to the Lord. ²²The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. ²³When he came and saw ^(E)the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord ^(F)with steadfast purpose, ²⁴for he was a good man, ^(G)full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people ^(H)were added to the Lord. ²⁵So Barnabas went to ^(I)Tarsus to look for Saul, ²⁶and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called ^(J)Christians.

²⁷Now in these days ^(K)prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. ²⁸And one of them named ^(L)Agabus stood up and foretold ^(M)by the Spirit that there would be a great ^(N)famine over all the world (this took place in the days of ^(O)Claudius). ²⁹So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, ^(P)to send relief to ^(Q)the brothers^[b] living in Judea. ³⁰^(R)And they did so, sending it to ^(S)the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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Acts 11:20 Or Greeks (that is, Greek-speaking non-Jews)
Acts 11:29 Or brothers and sisters

John 8:21-32

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²¹So he said to them again, ^(A)“I am going away, and ^(B)you will seek me, and ^(C)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²²So the Jews said, ^(D)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³He said to them, ^(E)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(F)You are of this world; ^(G)I am not of this world. ²⁴I told you that you ^(H)would die in your sins, for ^(I)unless you believe that ^(J)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵So they said to him, ^(K)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(L)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(M)to the world ^(N)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷They did not understand that ^(O)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(P)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(Q)then you will know that ^(R)I am he, and that ^(S)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(T)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹And ^(U)he who sent me is with me. ^(V)He has not left me alone, for ^(W)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰As he was saying these things, ^(X)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(Y)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³²and you will ^(Z)know the truth, and the truth ^(AA)will set you free.”

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