1 And Job answered and said, DBY — Job 12:1
2 Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you! DBY — Job 12:2
3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? DBY — Job 12:3
4 I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man]. DBY — Job 12:4
5 He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. DBY — Job 12:5
6 The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth. DBY — Job 12:6
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee; DBY — Job 12:7
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. DBY — Job 12:8
9 Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this? DBY — Job 12:9
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man. DBY — Job 12:10
11 Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food? DBY — Job 12:11
12 With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. DBY — Job 12:12
13 With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding. DBY — Job 12:13
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. DBY — Job 12:14
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. DBY — Job 12:15
16 With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his. DBY — Job 12:16
17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; DBY — Job 12:17
18 He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter; DBY — Job 12:18
19 He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty; DBY — Job 12:19
20 He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders; DBY — Job 12:20
21 He poureth contempt upon nobles, and slackeneth the girdle of the mighty; DBY — Job 12:21
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death; DBY — Job 12:22
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in; DBY — Job 12:23
24 He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste. DBY — Job 12:24
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard. DBY — Job 12:25