Job 12
12:1And undertaking, Job says,
12:2So then you are men, then wisdom comes to an end with you?
12:3There is also to me indeed a heart like yours.
12:4For a just man, and blameless, was born for an object for taunts.
12:5For at an appointed time man had been prepared to fall under others; also for his house to be pillaged by lawless ones. But let not however any one being wicked rely on he shall be considered innocent;
12:6as many as provoke the lord to anger, as if there will not be also their chastisement.
12:7But indeed ask the four-footed beasts! if they should speak to you, or birds of the heaven, if they were able to report to you.
12:8And let the earth tell in detail! if it should expound to you; and the fishes of the sea shall describe to you.
12:9Who knew not among all these, that the hand of the lord made these?
12:10Except in his hand is the life of all the living, and the breath of every man.
12:11For the ear indeed scrutinizes words, and the throat tastes grains.
12:12In a long time is wisdom; and in a long existence is higher knowledge.
12:13By him is wisdom and power; with him counsel and understanding.
12:14If he should throw down, who shall build up? If he locks against man, who opens?
12:15If he should restrain the water, he shall dry the earth; and if he should let it loose, he destroys it by eradication.
12:16By him is might and strength; in him is higher knowledge and understanding,
12:17leading counselors as captives; and judges of the earth he amazes;
12:18sitting kings upon thrones, and ties a belt on their loins;
12:19sending priests as captives; and the mighty ones of the earth he eradicates;
12:20reconciling the lips of the trustworthy; and the understanding of the elders he knew;
12:21pouring out dishonor upon rulers, but the humble he healed;
12:22uncovering the deeps from out of darkness, and he leads the shadow of death into light;
12:23wandering nations, and destroying them; prostrating nations, and directing them;
12:24reconciling the hearts of the rulers of the earth, but wandering them in the way which they do not know.
12:25May they handle darkness, and not light; may they be wandering as if one being intoxicated.