12:1 Then Job answered:
12:2 “Without a doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.
12:3 I also have understanding
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these?
12:4 I am
I, who called on God and whom he answered
a righteous and blameless
is a laughingstock!
12:5 For calamity,
(according to the ideas of the fortunate
a fate
12:6 But
and those who provoke God are confident
who carry their god in their hands.
12:7 “But now, ask the animals and they
or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.
12:8 Or speak
or let the fish of the sea declare to you.
12:9 Which of all these
that the hand of the Lord
12:10 in whose hand
and the breath of all the human race.
12:11 Does not the ear test words,
as
12:12 Is not wisdom found among the aged?
Does not long life bring understanding?
12:13 “With God
counsel and understanding are his.
12:14 If
if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.
12:15 If he holds back the waters, then they dry up;
if he releases them,
12:16 With him are strength and prudence;
both the one who goes astray
and the one who misleads are his.
12:17 He
and makes judges
12:18 He loosens
and binds a loincloth
12:19 He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows
12:20 He deprives the trusted advisers
and takes away the discernment
12:21 He pours contempt on noblemen
and disarms
12:22 He reveals the deep things of darkness,
and brings deep shadows
12:23 He makes nations great,
he extends the boundaries of nations
and disperses
12:24 He deprives the leaders of the earth
of their understanding;
he makes them wander
in a trackless desert waste.
12:25 They grope about in darkness
he makes them stagger
74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you fed
104:26 The ships travel there,
and over here swims the whale