The Book of Job

Chapter-12

Job 12:1 Then Job, answering, said:

 

Job 12:2 Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?

 

Job 12:3 And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?

 

Job 12:4 He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.

 

Job 12:5 The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.

 

Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.

 

Job 12:7 In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.

 

Job 12:8 Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.

 

Job 12:9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things?

 

Job 12:10 In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

 

Job 12:11 Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?

 

Job 12:12 In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.

 

Job 12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.

 

Job 12:14 If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.

 

Job 12:15 If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.

 

Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.

 

Job 12:17 He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.

 

Job 12:18 He removes the belt of kings and encircles their waist with a rope.

 

Job 12:19 He leads away priests in dishonor and displaces nobles,

 

Job 12:20 altering the lips of those who speak the truth and sweeping away the teaching of the aged.

 

Job 12:21 He pours distain upon the leaders, relieving those who had been oppressed.

 

Job 12:22 He reveals the depths of the darkness, and he brings the shadow of death into the light.

 

Job 12:23 He multiplies peoples, and destroys them, and, having been overthrown, he restores them anew.

 

Job 12:24 He transforms the heart of the leaders of the people on earth, and misleads those who in vain advance upon the inviolable.

 

Job 12:25 They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.