Job 5:27

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Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”

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Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who have pleasure in them.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I command you this day for your good?

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

“I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare

“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

Then Job answered:

“Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.