Job 12
Job 12
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.