The Bible
Job Chapter 12
1Then Job answered, 2"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God
5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God
7"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
9Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of ForeverOne
11Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13"With Him is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24He 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.
25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
The Bible text is a minor adaptation of the WEB
to include nuanced meanings of particular ancient words for placenames, God and others of special interest.
In general square brackets:[] are used to indicated words not found in the original text.
They also indicate the 5 books of the Psalms, and the letters in Psalm 119;
and a few passages considered by some to be of questionable authenticity, marked with an asterisk(*).
