Job 12:1-8 ▼

1 Then Job answered:

2 No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

3 But I also have a mind like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

5 The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.

6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who trouble God are secure; God holds them in his hands.

7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8 Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.