12Job 12

Job

2Yes, you are the voice of the people. When you die, wisdom will die with you.Select Job 12:2

3But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.Select Job 12:3

4Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.Select Job 12:4

5You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me; you hit someone who is about to fall.Select Job 12:5

6But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.Select Job 12:6

7Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;Select Job 12:7

8ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.Select Job 12:8

9All of them know that the Lord's hand made them.Select Job 12:9

10It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.Select Job 12:10

11But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food, your ears enjoy hearing words.Select Job 12:11

13Old people have wisdom, but God has wisdom and power. Old people have insight; God has insight and power to act.Select Job 12:13

14When God tears down, who can rebuild, and who can free those God imprisons?Select Job 12:14

15Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose.Select Job 12:15

16God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in his power.Select Job 12:16

17He takes away the wisdom of rulers and makes leaders act like fools.Select Job 12:17

18He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;Select Job 12:18

19he humbles priests and men of power.Select Job 12:19

20He silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away.Select Job 12:20

21He disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of rulers.Select Job 12:21

22He sends light to places dark as death.Select Job 12:22

23He makes nations strong and great, but then he defeats and destroys them.Select Job 12:23

24He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost;Select Job 12:24

25they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.Select Job 12:25