Job 12:1-10 ▼

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 “Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

3 But I have a heart of wisdom as well as you; I do not fall short of you. And who does not know such things as these?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

5 As for upheaval, there is only contempt by the one who acts at ease, But it is prepared for those whose feet slip.

6 The tents of the destroyers are complacent, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.

7 “But now ask the beasts, and let them instruct you; And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you.

8 Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you; And let the fish of the sea recount it to you.

9 Who among all these does not know That the hand of Yahweh has done this,

10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all the flesh of man?