Job 12:1-8 ▼

1 Then Job answered,

2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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

8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.