Job 12 — DBY
12Verse 1And Job answered and said,Verse 2Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!Verse 3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?Verse 4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon+God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].Verse 5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.Verse 6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke*God are secure; into whose hand+God bringeth.Verse 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;Verse 8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.Verse 9Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?Verse 10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.Verse 11Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?Verse 12With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.Verse 13With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.Verse 14Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.Verse 15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.Verse 16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.Verse 17He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;Verse 18He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;Verse 19He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty;Verse 20He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;Verse 21He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty;Verse 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;Verse 23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in;Verse 24He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.Verse 25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard.