Job 12 — GNB
12Verse 1Then Job answered and said:Verse 2No doubt ye are the whole people! And wisdom will die with you!Verse 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?Verse 4I am become a laughing-stock to my friend,—I who call upon God, that he would answer me! The innocent and upright man is held in derision.Verse 5To calamity belongeth contempt in the mind of one at ease; It is ready for them that slip with the feet.Verse 6The tents of robbers are in prosperity, And they who provoke God are secure, Who carry their God in their hand.Verse 7For ask now the beasts, and they will teach thee; Or the fowls of the air, and they will tell thee;Verse 8Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct thee; And the fishes of the sea will declare unto thee.Verse 9Who among all these doth not know That the hand of Jehovah doeth these things?Verse 10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.Verse 11Doth not the ear prove words, As the mouth tasteth meat?Verse 12With the aged is wisdom, And with length of days is understanding.Verse 13With Him are wisdom and strength; With Him counsel and understanding.Verse 14Lo! he pulleth down, and it shall not be rebuilt; He bindeth a man, and he shall not be set loose.Verse 15Lo! he withholdeth the waters, and they are dried up; He sendeth them forth, and they lay waste the earth.Verse 16With him are strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.Verse 17He leadeth counsellors away captive, And judges he maketh fools.Verse 18He looseth the authority of kings, And bindeth their loins with a cord.Verse 19He leadeth priests away captive, And overthroweth the mighty.Verse 20He removeth speech from the trusty, And taketh away judgment from the elders.Verse 21He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the girdle of the mighty.Verse 22He revealeth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth the shadow of death to light.Verse 23He exalteth nations, and destroyeth them; He enlargeth nations, and leadeth them captive.Verse 24He taketh away the understanding of the great men of the land, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness, where is no path;Verse 25They grope in the dark without light; He maketh them stagger like a drunken man.