Jb 12:1Then Job answered and said,
Jb 12:2 Surely then you are the people, / And wisdom will die with you.
Jb 12:3 I also have understanding as you do; / I am not inferior to you. / And who does not know things like these?
Jb 12:4 I have become a laughingstock to my friends, / I, who have called out to God and He answers me. / The righteous man, the perfect man, is a laughingstock.
Jb 12:5 There is contempt for calamity in the thought of him who is at ease: / It is prepared for those whose foot slips.
Jb 12:6 The tents of robbers prosper, / And those who provoke God have security, / Those who carry their god in their own might.
Jb 12:7 But ask now of the beasts, and they will teach you; / And of the birds of heaven, and they will tell you.
Jb 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; / And the fish of the sea will declare to you.
Jb 12:9 Who among all these does not know / That the hand of Jehovah has done this,
Jb 12:10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing / And the breath of all flesh of man?
Jb 12:11 Does not the ear try words / Even as the palate tastes food for itself?
Jb 12:12 In aged men, you say, there is wisdom, / And in length of days there is understanding.
Jb 12:13 But with Him are wisdom and might; / Counsel and understanding are His.
Jb 12:14 Indeed, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt; / He shuts a man up, and the door cannot be opened.
Jb 12:15 Indeed, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; / And He sends them forth, and they overturn the earth.
Jb 12:16 With Him are strength and effectual wisdom; / The deceived and the deceiver are His.
Jb 12:17 He leads counselors away stripped, / And He makes fools of judges.
Jb 12:18 He loosens the fetters of kings / And binds their loins with a belt.
Jb 12:19 He leads priests away stripped, / And He overturns dignitaries.
Jb 12:20 He removes the utterance of the trusty / And takes away the counsel of the elders.
Jb 12:21 He pours contempt upon the princes / And loosens the belt of the strong.
Jb 12:22 He uncovers the depths out of darkness / And brings to light the shadow of death.
Jb 12:23 He makes nations great and destroys them; / He expands nations and leads them off.
Jb 12:24 He removes the understanding of the heads of the people of the earth / And causes them to wander in a pathless waste.
Jb 12:25 They grope in darkness, and there is no light; / And He causes them to stagger like a drunken man.
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