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Job 12 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Job Replies: The Lord Has Done This

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:1 - Then Job answered and said:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:2 - “No doubt you are the people,
and wisdom will die with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:3 - But I have understanding as well as you;
I am not inferior to you.
Who does not know such things as these?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:4 - I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called to God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:5 - In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;
it is ready for those whose feet slip.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:6 - The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:7 - “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:8 - or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;[fn]
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:9 - Who among all these does not know
that the hand of the LORD has done this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:10 - In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:11 - Does not the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:12 - Wisdom is with the aged,
and understanding in length of days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:13 - “With God[fn] are wisdom and might;
he has counsel and understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:14 - If he tears down, none can rebuild;
if he shuts a man in, none can open.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:15 - If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:16 - With him are strength and sound wisdom;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:17 - He leads counselors away stripped,
and judges he makes fools.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:18 - He looses the bonds of kings
and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:19 - He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows the mighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20 - He deprives of speech those who are trusted
and takes away the discernment of the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:21 - He pours contempt on princes
and loosens the belt of the strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:22 - He uncovers the deeps out of darkness
and brings deep darkness to light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:23 - He makes nations great, and he destroys them;
he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:24 - He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 - They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
ESV Footnotes
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Or or speak to the earth, and it will teach you
Hebrew him
ESV

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001, 2007, 2011, 2016 by Crossway Books and Bibles, a Publishing Ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the ESV Preface.

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