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Job 12

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1 Then Job replied:

2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!

3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?

4 “I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

5 Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand.

7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;

8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.

9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?

12 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

13 “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

14 What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.

15 If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

16 To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.

17 He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

18 He takes off the shackles put on by kings and ties a loincloth around their waist.

19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established.

20 He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

21 He pours contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light.

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

24 He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.

25 They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 respondens autem Iob dixit

2 ergo vos estis soli homines et vobiscum morietur sapientia

3 et mihi est cor sicut et vobis nec inferior vestri sum quis enim haec quae nostis ignorat

4 qui deridetur ab amico suo sicut ego invocabit Deum et exaudiet eum deridetur enim iusti simplicitas

5 lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum

6 abundant tabernacula praedonum et audacter provocant Deum cum ipse dederit omnia in manibus eorum

7 nimirum interroga iumenta et docebunt te et volatilia caeli et indicabunt tibi

8 loquere terrae et respondebit tibi et narrabunt pisces maris

9 quis ignorat quod omnia haec manus Domini fecerit

10 in cuius manu anima omnis viventis et spiritus universae carnis hominis

11 nonne auris verba diiudicat et fauces comedentis saporem

12 in antiquis est sapientia et in multo tempore prudentia

13 apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo ipse habet consilium et intellegentiam

14 si destruxerit nemo est qui aedificet et si incluserit hominem nullus est qui aperiat

15 si continuerit aquas omnia siccabuntur et si emiserit eas subvertent terram

16 apud ipsum est fortitudo et sapientia ipse novit et decipientem et eum qui decipitur

17 adducit consiliarios in stultum finem et iudices in stuporem

18 balteum regum dissolvit et praecingit fune renes eorum

19 ducit sacerdotes inglorios et optimates subplantat

20 commutans labium veracium et doctrinam senum auferens

21 effundit despectionem super principes et eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans

22 qui revelat profunda de tenebris et producit in lucem umbram mortis

23 qui multiplicat gentes et perdet eas et subversas in integrum restituet

24 qui inmutat cor principum populi terrae et decipit eos ut frustra incedant per invium

25 palpabunt quasi in tenebris et non in luce et errare eos faciet quasi ebrios