Job 12:1-10

1 Iyov responded:
2 "No doubt you are [the only] people [that matter]; and when you die, so will wisdom.
3 But I too have a brain, as much as you, In no way am I inferior to you. Besides, who doesn't know things like these?
4 "Anyone who calls on God, and he answers him, becomes a laughingstock to his friends -they make fun of an innocent, blameless man.
5 Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, for the blow that strikes somebody already staggering.
6 The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.
7 "But ask the animals - they will teach you -and the birds in the air - they will tell you;
8 or speak to the earth - it will teach you -and the fish in the sea will inform you:
9 every one of them knows that the hand of ADONAI has done this!
10 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the spirit of every human being.

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