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

⁷ But now ask the animals, and they shall teach you; and the birds of the air, and they shall tell you; ⁸ or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; and the fish of the sea shall declare it to you; ⁹ who of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? ¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, even of man? ¹¹ Does not the ear try words? And does not the mouth taste its food? ¹² With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in length of days.

¹³ With Him is wisdom and strength; He has wisdom and understanding. ¹⁴ Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens. ¹⁵ Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth. ¹⁶ With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His. ¹⁷ He leads wise men away stripped, and makes the judges fools. ¹⁸ He cuts away the bonds of kings, and binds their loins with a girdle. ¹⁹ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. ²⁰ He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged. ²¹ He pours scorn on princes, and unties the belt of the mighty. ²² He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings the shadow of death to light. ²³ He gives greatness to the nations, and destroys them. He spreads out the nations, and leads them away. ²⁴ He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path. ²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunkard.