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Job 12:3

Wisdom

1 Then Job answered:

2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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BSB
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
KJV
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
WEB
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
ASV
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
DARBY
I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
BLB
Also unto me [is] a heart like you⁺; I [am] not falling below you⁺. And with whom are not [things] like these?
ÅB
Også jeg har forstand, slik som dere, jeg står ikke tilbake for dere, og hvem vet ikke dette?
OTB
Men jeg har forstand like godt som dere;
jeg står ikke under dere.
Hvem vet ikke slike ting som disse?
B1930
Også jeg har forstand, likesom I, jeg står ikke tilbake for eder, og hvem vet ikke dette?

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