Job 12  Jubilee Bible 2000

12 ¶ And Job answered and said,

² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

³ But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?

⁴ He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.

⁵ The torch is held in low esteem in the thought of him that is prosperous, which was prepared to guard against a slip of the feet.

⁶ ¶ The tents of robbers are at ease, and those that provoke God and those who carry gods in their hands live secure.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they shall show thee;

⁸ or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; the fishes of the sea shall declare it unto thee also.

⁹ What thing of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD made them?

¹⁰ In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.

¹¹ Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.

¹² ¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days intelligence.

¹³ With him is wisdom and strength; he has counsel and intelligence.

¹⁴ Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him.

¹⁵ Behold, he shall withhold the waters, and they shall dry up; also he shall send them forth, and they shall destroy the earth.

¹⁶ With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his.

¹⁷ He causes the counsellors to walk away stripped of counsel and makes the judges to be fools.

¹⁸ He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.

¹⁹ He leads priests away spoiled and overthrows the mighty.

²⁰ He impedes the lips of those that speak the truth and takes away the counsel of the aged.

²¹ He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty.

²² He uncovers the depths of the darkness and brings out to light the shadow of death.

²³ He multiplies the Gentiles and destroys them; he scatters the Gentiles and gathers them again.

²⁴ He takes away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth and causes them to become lost, wandering without a way.

²⁵ They grope in the darkness and not the light, and he causes them to err like drunken men.