Job 12

¹But Job answering, said:

²Are you then men alone, & shall wisdom die with you?

³I also have a heart even as you, neither am I inferior to you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?

⁴He that is mocked of his friend as I, shall invocate God, and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is scorned.

⁵The lamp contemned in the cogitations of the rich, is prepared to the time appointed.

⁶The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly, whereas he hath given all things into their hands.

⁷For ask the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.

⁸Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee, and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

⁹Who is ignorant that the hand of our Lord hath made all these things?

¹⁰In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of man.

¹¹Doth not the ear discern words, and the jaws of him that eateth, the taste?

¹²In the ancients is wisdom, and in long time prudence.

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

¹⁴If he shall destroy, there is no man that can build: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

¹⁵If he hold in the waters, all things shall be dried: and if he send them forth, they shall overthrow the earth.

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.

¹⁷He bringeth counsellers to a foolish end, & judges to astonishment.

¹⁸He looseth the belt of kings, & girdeth their reins with a cord.

¹⁹He leadeth away Priests without glory, & supplanteth the great men.

²⁰Changing the lip of the true, and taking away the doctrine of the ancients.

²¹He poureth out contempt upon Princes, relieving them that had been oppressed.

²²Who revealeth profound things out of darkness, and bringeth forth the shadow of death into light.

²³Who multiplieth nations, & destroyeth them, and restoreth the destroyed whole again.

²⁴Who changeth the heart of the Princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them, that they may go in vain where is no passage.

²⁵They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them go amiss as drunken men.