Job 12:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job answered:

2 Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered--a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

5 For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate)--a fate for those whose feet slip!

6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident--who carry their god in their hands.

7 But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

8 Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this,