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Job 12 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 12:1Then Job answered:
Job 12:2"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 12:5In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
Job 12:7"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
Job 12:8or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
Job 12:9Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Job 12:10In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:11Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
Job 12:12Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job Speaks of the Power of God

Job 12:13"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Job 12:14If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
Job 12:15If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
Job 12:16With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
Job 12:18He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
Job 12:19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Job 12:20He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
Job 12:22He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
Job 12:23He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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