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ASV: Job 12

Chapters

[1] Then Job answered and said,

[2] No doubt but ye are the people,

And wisdom shall die with you.

[3] But I have understanding as well as you;

I am not inferior to you:

Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

[4] I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor,

I who called upon God, and he answered:

The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

[5] In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;

It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

[6] The tents of robbers prosper,

And they that provoke God are secure;

Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

[7] But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;

And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

[8] Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee;

And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

[9] Who knoweth not in all these,

That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,

[10] In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,

And the breath of all mankind?

[11] Doth not the ear try words,

Even as the palate tasteth its food?

[12] With aged men is wisdom,

And in length of days understanding.

[13] With God is wisdom and might;

He hath counsel and understanding.

[14] Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again;

He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

[15] Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up;

Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

[16] With him is strength and wisdom;

The deceived and the deceiver are his.

[17] He leadeth counsellors away stripped,

And judges maketh he fools.

[18] He looseth the bond of kings,

And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.

[19] He leadeth priests away stripped,

And overthroweth the mighty.

[20] He removeth the speech of the trusty,

And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

[21] He poureth contempt upon princes,

And looseth the belt of the strong.

[22] He uncovereth deep things out of darkness,

And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

[23] He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them:

He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.

[24] He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth,

And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

[25] They grope in the dark without light;

And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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