12Job 12

1And Job answereth and saith: --Select Job 12:1

2Truly--ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.Select Job 12:2

3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?Select Job 12:3

4A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.Select Job 12:4

5A torch--despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.Select Job 12:5

6At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.Select Job 12:6

7And yet, ask, I pray thee, One of the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.Select Job 12:7

8Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:Select Job 12:8

9`Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?Select Job 12:9

10In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'Select Job 12:10

11Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?Select Job 12:11

12With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding.Select Job 12:12

13With Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.Select Job 12:13

14Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.Select Job 12:14

15Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.Select Job 12:15

16With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.Select Job 12:16

17Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.Select Job 12:17

18The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.Select Job 12:18

19Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.Select Job 12:19

20Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.Select Job 12:20

21Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.Select Job 12:21

22Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.Select Job 12:22

23Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.Select Job 12:23

24Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy--no way!Select Job 12:24

25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.Select Job 12:25