“Who(A) is this who darkens counsel
By (B)words without knowledge?

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“Who is this that obscures my plans(A)
    with words without knowledge?(B)

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You asked, (A)‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
(B)Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

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You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’(A)
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.(B)

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desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.

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They want to be teachers(A) of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.(B)

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16 (A)Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

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16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;(A)
    without knowledge he multiplies words.”(B)

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35 ‘Job(A) speaks without knowledge,
His words are without wisdom.’

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35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge;(A)
    his words lack insight.’(B)

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11 “I will teach you [a]about the hand of God;
What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 27:11 Or by

11 “I will teach you about the power of God;
    the ways(A) of the Almighty I will not conceal.(B)

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How have you counseled one who has no wisdom?
And how have you declared sound advice to many?

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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight(A) you have displayed!

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25 “Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar,
And make my speech worth nothing?”

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25 “If this is not so, who can prove me false
    and reduce my words to nothing?”(A)

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I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.

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I would state my case(A) before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.(B)
I would find out what he would answer me,(C)
    and consider what he would say to me.

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But I have [a]understanding as well as you;
I am not (A)inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:3 Lit. a heart

But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(A)

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