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Chapter 12

Job’s Third Reply. [a]Then Job answered and said:

No doubt you are the people
    with whom wisdom shall die!
But I have intelligence as well as you;(A)
    I do not fall short of you;
    for who does not know such things as these?

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Footnotes

  1. 12:1 Job begins his third and longest speech to the friends with sarcasm, and eventually he accuses them of falsehood (13:4–11). The dialogue between them becomes increasingly sharp. With the appeal to learning from beasts and birds (12:7), Job launches into what seems to be a bitter parody of the power of God.