Job Replies: The Lord Has Done This

Job 12:1  And Job answered and said, 

Job 12:2  No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 

Job 12:3  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 

Job 12:4  I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 

Job 12:5  He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 

Job 12:6  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 

Job 12:7  But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 

Job 12:8  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 

Job 12:9  Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? 

Job 12:10  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. 

Job 12:11  Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? 

Job 12:12  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 

Job 12:13  With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 

Job 12:14  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 

Job 12:15  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 

Job 12:16  With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 

Job 12:17  He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. 

Job 12:18  He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. 

Job 12:19  He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. 

Job 12:20  He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. 

Job 12:21  He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. 

Job 12:22  He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. 

Job 12:23  He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. 

Job 12:24  He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. 

Job 12:25  They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. 

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