The Book of Job

chapter 12


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verse #1

Then Job answered,


verse #2

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


verse #3

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?


verse #4

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.


verse #5

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.


verse #6

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.


verse #7

“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.


verse #8

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.


verse #9

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,


verse #10

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?


verse #11

Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?


verse #12

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.


verse #13

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.


verse #14

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.


verse #15

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.


verse #16

With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.


verse #17

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.


verse #18

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.


verse #19

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.


verse #20

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.


verse #21

He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.


verse #22

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.


verse #23

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.


verse #24

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.


verse #25

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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