LITV - Job - 12

12:1  And Job answered and said:

12:2  For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

12:3  I also have a heart as well as you; I do not fall short of you. And with whom are not things like these?

12:4  I am a laughingstock to his friends; calling on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;

12:5  a flame is despised in the thoughts of him who feels secure; it is ready for those with slipping feet.

12:6  The tents of plunderers and those provoking God are at ease, to whomever God brings into his hand.

12:7  But now please ask the animals, and they will teach you; and the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

12:8  or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will recount to you;

12:9  who of all these does not know that Jehovah's hand has done this?

12:10  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh, even of man?

12:11  Does the ear not try words, and the mouth taste food for itself?

12:12  With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in the length of days.

12:13  With Him is wisdom and strength; He has forethought and understanding.

12:14  Behold, He breaks down, and no one builds; He shuts against a man, and no one opens.

12:15  Behold, He holds back the waters, and they dry up; and He sends them out, and they overflow the earth.

12:16  With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

12:17  He causes wise men to go stripped; and He makes judges fools.

12:18  He loosens the bonds of kings, and He binds their loins with a girdle;

12:19  making priests walk away stripped; and He overthrows the mighty;

12:20  turning aside the lip of the trusted men; and He takes away the reason of the aged.

12:21  He pours scorn on nobles, and He unties the belt of the mighty;

12:22  revealing deep things out of darkness; and He brings the shadow of death to light.

12:23  He gives greatness to the nations, and He destroys them; spreading out the nations, and He leads them out

12:24  He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the land; and He causes them to wander in a waste in which is no path.

12:25  They grope in the dark, and there is no light; and He makes them stagger like a drunkard.