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# Job 12

[1](#verse-1) Then Job answered,

[2](#verse-2) “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

[3](#verse-3) But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

[4](#verse-4) I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

[5](#verse-5) In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

[6](#verse-6) The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

[7](#verse-7) “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

[8](#verse-8) Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.

[9](#verse-9) Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,

[10](#verse-10) in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

[11](#verse-11) Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

[12](#verse-12) With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

[13](#verse-13) “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

[14](#verse-14) Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

[15](#verse-15) Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

[16](#verse-16) With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

[17](#verse-17) He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

[18](#verse-18) He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

[19](#verse-19) He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

[20](#verse-20) He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

[21](#verse-21) He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

[22](#verse-22) He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

[23](#verse-23) He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

[24](#verse-24) He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

[25](#verse-25) They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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