Thematic Bible

Job 12:1

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Job 12:2

Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.

Job 12:3

I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?

Job 12:4

A laughing-stock to one's neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock - a righteous man without blame!

Job 12:5

For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease, - ready, for such as are of faltering foot!

Job 12:6

At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

Job 12:7

But, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;

Job 12:8

Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to thee:

Job 12:9

Who knoweth not, among all these, that, the hand of Yahweh, hath done this?

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of men.

Job 12:11

Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?

Job 12:12

In the Ancient, is wisdom, and in Length of Days, understanding:

Job 12:13

With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.

Job 12:14

Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

Job 12:15

Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:

Job 12:16

With Him, is strength and effective wisdom, to Him, belong he that erreth, and he that causeth to err.

Job 12:17

Who leadeth away counsellors as a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

Job 12:18

The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins:

Job 12:19

Who leadeth away priests as a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth:

Job 12:20

Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away:

Job 12:21

Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed:

Job 12:22

Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade:

Job 12:23

Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile:

Job 12:24

Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste:

Job 12:25

They grope about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.