Job 12
Job 12:1 Then Job answered and said:
Job 12:2 Truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
Job 12:3 But I also have a heart like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you refer to?
Job 12:4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Job 12:5 The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.
Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who trouble God are secure; God holds them in his hands.
Job 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Job 12:8 Or speak to the land, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
Job 12:9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of Yahveh has done this?
Job 12:10 The throat of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:11 Doesn’t the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
Job 12:12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
Job 12:13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are his.
Job 12:14 Whatever he tears down cannot be rebuilt; whoever he imprisons cannot be released.
Job 12:15 When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it overturns the ground.
Job 12:16 True wisdom and power belong to him. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 12:17 He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.
Job 12:18 He releases the bonds put on by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
Job 12:19 He leads priests away barefoot, and overthrows established leaders.
Job 12:20 He deprives trusted advisers of speech and takes away the elders’ good judgment.
Job 12:21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the strong.
Job 12:22 He reveals mysteries from the darkness and brings the deepest darkness into the light.
Job 12:23 He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.
Job 12:24 He deprives the land’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Job 12:25 They grope around in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like a drunk.
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