Job 12:1
Then Job answered:
Job 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Job 12:3
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Job 12:5
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
Job 12:7
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
Job 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
Job 12:9
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Job 12:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its 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
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Job 12:15
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
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 fools of judges.
Job 12:18
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
Job 12:19
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
Job 12:20
He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
Job 12:21
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
Job 12:22
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
Job 12:23
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
Job 12:24
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
Job 12:25
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.