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Job 12

Common English Bible CEB

1 Job responded:

2 Surely you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3 I am also intelligent; I'm not inferior to you. Who isn't like these people?

4 I'm a joke to friends who called to God and he answered; the innocent and blameless one is a joke,

5 a torch of contempt to one who is idle, a fixed point for slipping feet.

6 Raiders' tents are prosperous and God's provokers secure, who carry God in their hands.

7 But ask Behemoth, and he will teach you, the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;

8 or talk to earth, and it will teach you; the fish of the sea will recount it for you.

9 Among all these, who hasn't known that the LORD's hand did this?

10 In whose grasp is the life of every thing, the breath of every person?

11 Doesn't the ear test words and the palate taste food?

12 "In old age is wisdom; understanding in a long life."

13 With him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

14 If he tears down, it can't be rebuilt; if he ties a person up, he can't be set free.

15 If he restricts water, they have drought; if he lets it loose, it overturns the land.

16 With him are might and success; the deceiver and the deceived are his.

17 He leads advisors away barefoot; makes madmen of judges;

18 unties the belt of kings, binds a garment around their loins;

19 leads priests away barefoot; overthrows the well-established;

20 silences the talk of trusted people; takes away elders' discernment;

21 pours contempt on royalty; loosens the belt of the strong;

22 discloses deep secrets of darkness, makes utter darkness enter the light;

23 makes nations prominent and destroys them, expands nations and leads them astray;

24 takes away the power to think from earth's leaders, making them wander in untraveled wastelands.

25 They feel their way in the dark without light; he makes them stumble like drunks.

New King James Version NKJV

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 "No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!

3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

4 "I am one mocked by his friends, Who called on God, and He answered him, The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

5 A lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease; It is made ready for those whose feet slip.

6 The tents of robbers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure-- In what God provides by His hand.

7 "But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; And the fish of the sea will explain to you.

9 Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,

10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

11 Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food?

12 Wisdom is with aged men, And with length of days, understanding.

13 "With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

14 If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.

15 If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.

16 With Him are strength and prudence. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

17 He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.

18 He loosens the bonds of kings, And binds their waist with a belt.

19 He leads princes away plundered, And overthrows the mighty.

20 He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

21 He pours contempt on princes, And disarms the mighty.

22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings the shadow of death to light.

23 He makes nations great, and destroys them; He enlarges nations, and guides them.

24 He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.

25 They grope in the dark without light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.