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12 : 1 Then Job responded,
12 : 2 Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
12 : 3 But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
12 : 4 I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
12 : 5 He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
12 : 6 The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
12 : 7 But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
12 : 8 Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
12 : 9 Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this,
12 : 10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
12 : 11 Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
12 : 12 Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
12 : 13 With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.
12 : 14 Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
12 : 15 Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
12 : 16 With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
12 : 17 He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
12 : 18 He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.
12 : 19 He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
12 : 20 He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
12 : 21 He pours contempt on nobles And loosens the belt of the strong.
12 : 22 He reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.
12 : 23 He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
12 : 24 He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth`s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
12 : 25 They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.