Job 12
Job Affirms God's
Power and Wisdom |
1 |
And 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 mocked of his
neighbor,
|
who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: |
the just upright man is laughed to
scorn. |
|
|
5 |
He that is ready to slip with his feet
|
is as a lamp despised in the thought of him
that is at
ease. |
|
|
6 |
The tabernacles 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 fowls of the air, 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 the LORD 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?
|
and the mouth taste his
meat? |
|
|
12 |
With the ancient is wisdom;
|
and in length of days understanding.
|
|
|
13 |
With him 1 is wisdom and strength,
|
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:
|
also 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 counselors away spoiled,
|
and maketh the judges
fools. |
|
|
18 |
He looseth the bond of kings,
|
and girdeth their loins with a
girdle. |
|
|
19 |
He leadeth princes away spoiled,
|
and overthroweth the
mighty. |
|
|
20 |
He removeth away the speech of the
trusty,
|
and taketh away the understanding of the
aged. |
|
|
21 |
He poureth contempt upon princes,
|
and weakeneth the strength of the
mighty. |
|
|
22 |
He discovereth deep things out of
darkness,
|
and bringeth out to light the shadow of
death. |
|
|
23 |
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth
them:
|
he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. |
|
|
24 |
He taketh away the heart of the chief 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. |
|
|