Job 12:1-9 ▼

1 In response Job replied:

2 |Truly, you are the people and wisdom will die with you!

3 Like you, I also have understanding. I'm not inferior to you; who doesn't know things like this?|

4 |I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

5 The carefree are thinking, 'I have contempt for misfortune,' Those who are about to stumble deserve it.

6 The tents of robbers are at rest, and those who provoke God are secure, that is, those who carry their god in their pocket.

7 |Ask the wild animals, and they'll teach you; the birds of the sky will tell you.

8 Or ask the green plants of the earth and they'll teach you; let the fish in the sea tell you.

9 Who among all of these doesn't know that the LORD's hand made them,