Job 12:1 (BSB)
Then Job answered:

Job 12:2 (BSB)
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

Job 12:3 (BSB)
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 12:4 (BSB)
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 (BSB)
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Job 12:6 (BSB)
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

Job 12:7 (BSB)
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Job 12:8 (BSB)
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Job 12:9 (BSB)
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

Job 12:10 (BSB)
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:11 (BSB)
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Job 12:12 (BSB)
Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Job 12:13 (BSB)
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

Job 12:14 (BSB)
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Job 12:15 (BSB)
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

Job 12:16 (BSB)
True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Job 12:17 (BSB)
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

Job 12:18 (BSB)
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

Job 12:19 (BSB)
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

Job 12:20 (BSB)
He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

Job 12:21 (BSB)
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

Job 12:22 (BSB)
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

Job 12:23 (BSB)
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

Job 12:24 (BSB)
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Job 12:25 (BSB)
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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