| 12 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Job answered: | Job. Jb.12.1-14.22 | |
| 2 | "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. | ||
| 3 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? | ||
| 4 | I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock. | ||
| 5 | In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip. | ||
| 6 | The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand. | ||
| 7 | "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; | ||
| 8 | or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. | ||
| 9 | Who among all these does not know that the hand of Yahweh has done this? | ||
| 10 | In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. | ||
| 11 | Does not the ear search words as the palate tastes food? | ||
| 12 | Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days. | ||
| 13 | "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding. | ||
| 14 | If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. | ||
| 15 | If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land. | ||
| 16 | With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his. | ||
| 17 | He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools. | ||
| 18 | He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins. | ||
| 19 | He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. | ||
| 20 | He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders. | ||
| 21 | He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong. | ||
| 22 | He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light. | ||
| 23 | He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away. | ||
| 24 | He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste. | ||
| 25 | They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. | ||
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