Job 12:1-9 ▼

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,