Job 12:1-9 ▼

1 And Job answers and says:

2 “Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.

3 I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, || And with whom is there not like these?

4 I am a laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, || A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.

5 A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure || Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.

6 The tents of spoilers are at peace, || And those provoking God have confidence, || Into whose hand God has brought.

7 And yet, now ask [one of] the beasts, || And it shows you, || And a bird of the heavens, || And it declares to you.

8 Or talk to the earth, and it shows you, || And fishes of the sea recount to you:

9 Who has not known in all these, || That the hand of YHWH has done this?