nsb - Job:12

nsb@Job:12:1 @ JOB RESPONDED:

nsb@Job:12:2 @ »Doubtless you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

nsb@Job:12:3 @ »I have a mind as well as you! I am not inferior to you! Who does not know all these things?

nsb@Job:12:4 @ »I have become a laughingstock to my friends! I called upon God and he answered. Yet I am a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

nsb@Job:12:5 @ »Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

nsb@Job:12:6 @ »The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what Gods hand brings them.

nsb@Job:12:7 @ »Ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you.

nsb@Job:12:8 @ »Speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you.

nsb@Job:12:9 @ »Which of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this?

nsb@Job:12:10 @ »In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

nsb@Job:12:11 @ »Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?

nsb@Job:12:12 @ »Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

nsb@Job:12:13 @ »To God belong wisdom and power. Counsel and understanding are his.

nsb@Job:12:14 @ »What he tears down cannot be rebuilt. The man he imprisons cannot be released.

nsb@Job:12:15 @ »If he holds back the waters, there is drought. If he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

nsb@Job:12:16 @ »To him belong strength and victory. Both deceived and deceivers are his.

nsb@Job:12:17 @ »He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

nsb@Job:12:18 @ »He takes off the bonds put on by kings and ties a belt around their waist.

nsb@Job:12:19 @ »He leads priests away stripped and overthrows men long established.

nsb@Job:12:20 @ »He silences the lips of trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of elders.

nsb@Job:12:21 @ »He pours out contempt upon nobles and disarms the mighty.

nsb@Job:12:22 @ »He uncovers the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

nsb@Job:12:23 @ »He makes nations great, and destroys them. He enlarges nations, and disperses them.

nsb@Job:12:24 @ »He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason and understanding. He sends them wandering through a pathless wilderness.

nsb@Job:12:25 @ »They grope in darkness without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.