The Book of Job

And Job answered and said:

For truly you [are] the people, and wisdom will die with you.

I also have a heart as well as you; I do not fall [short] of you. And with whom [are] not things like these?

I [am] a laughingstock to his friends; calling on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one [is] a mockery;

a flame [is] despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; [it is] ready for those with slipping feet.

The tents of plunderers and those provoking God [are] at ease, to whomever God brings into his hand.

But now please ask the animals, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will recount to you;

who of all these does not know that Jehovah's hand has done this?

In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, [even] of man?

Does the ear not try words, and the mouth taste food for itself?

With the aged [is] wisdom, and understanding in the length of days.

With Him is wisdom and strength; He has forethought and understanding.

Behold, He breaks down, and no one builds; He shuts against a man, and no one opens.

Behold, He holds back the waters, and they dry up; and He sends them out, and they overflow the earth.

With Him [is] strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

He causes wise men to go stripped; and He makes judges fools.

He loosens the bonds of kings, and He binds their loins with a girdle;

making priests walk [away] stripped; and He overthrows the mighty;

turning aside the lip of the trusted men; and He takes away the reason of the aged.

revealing deep things out of darkness; and He brings the shadow of death to light.

He gives greatness to the nations, and He destroys them; spreading out the nations, and He leads them out

He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the land; and He causes them to wander in a waste [in which is] no path.

They grope in the dark, and [there is] no light; and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.