Job 12:7-25 - If You Want To Learn

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you; ⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it. ⁹ Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man. ¹¹ Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth? ¹² Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

¹³ With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his. ¹⁴ Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose. ¹⁵ Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned. ¹⁶ With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands; ¹⁷ He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish; ¹⁸ He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them; ¹⁹ He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions; ²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old; ²¹ He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong; ²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright; ²³ Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up. ²⁴ He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way. ²⁵ They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.