Job 12:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job responded,

2 “Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

3 “But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?

4 “I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.

5 “He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.

6 “The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.

7 “But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.

8 “Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you; And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

9 “Who among all these does not know That the hand of the LORD has done this,