Job-12

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Job Then Job replied:
  • 2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
  • 3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
  • 4 “I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
  • 5 Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
  • 6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand. 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand
  • 7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
  • 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.
  • 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
  • 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
  • 11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
  • 12 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
  • 13 “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
  • 14 What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.
  • 15 If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
  • 16 To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.
  • 17 He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.
  • 18 He takes off the shackles put on by kings and ties a loincloth 12:18 Or shackles of kings / and ties a belt around their waist.
  • 19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.
  • 20 He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.
  • 21 He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
  • 22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.
  • 23 He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations, and disperses them.
  • 24 He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.
  • 25 They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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