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Job 12:20

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God makes the trusted advisers be silent.\par He takes away the wisdom of old people.\par

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God makes leaders foolish.\par He makes them wander aimlessly\par through the desert.\par

You have closed my friends’ minds\par and they don’t understand.\par Please don’t let them win.\par

Old men are not the only wise people.\par Old people are not the only people\par that understand what is right.\par

Why? Because I (God) didn’t give wisdom to the ostrich.\par The ostrich is foolish,\par and I made her that way.\par

A good person’s words will help many people. But a fool’s stupidity will kill him.

If a person tells a lie, then those words are wasted quickly. But the truth will live forever.

The Lord hates people who tell lies. But the Lord is happy with people who tell the truth.