Job 12:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job replied [to his friends],

2 |You certainly are [wise] people, and when you die, wisdom will die.

3 Like you, I have a mind. I am not inferior to you. But who doesn't know these things?

4 I am a laughingstock to my neighbors. I am one who calls on God and expects an answer. A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become a laughingstock.

5 |A person who has an easy life has no appreciation for misfortune. He thinks it is the fate of those who slip up.

6 [But] robbers' tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.

7 |Instead, ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds, and they will tell you.

8 Or speak with the earth, and it will teach you. Even the fish will relate [the story] to you.

9 What creature doesn't know that the LORD's hands made it?