rsv Job:12
rsv@Job:12:1 @ Then Job answered:
rsv@Job:12:2 @ "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
rsv@Job:12:3 @ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
rsv@Job:12:4 @ I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
rsv@Job:12:5 @ In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
rsv@Job:12:6 @ The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
rsv@Job:12:7 @ "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
rsv@Job:12:8 @ or the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
rsv@Job:12:9 @ Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
rsv@Job:12:10 @ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
rsv@Job:12:12 @ Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
rsv@Job:12:13 @ "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
rsv@Job:12:14 @ If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
rsv@Job:12:15 @ If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
rsv@Job:12:16 @ With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
rsv@Job:12:17 @ He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.
rsv@Job:12:18 @ He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
rsv@Job:12:19 @ He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
rsv@Job:12:20 @ He deprives of speech those who are trusted, and takes away the discernment of the elders.
rsv@Job:12:21 @ He pours contempt on princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
rsv@Job:12:22 @ He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.
rsv@Job:12:23 @ He makes nations great, and he destroys them: he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
rsv@Job:12:24 @ He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
rsv@Job:12:25 @ They grope in the dark without light; and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.