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12:1  Then Job answered and said,
12:2  No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
12:3  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
12:4  I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
12:5  In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
12:6  The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .
12:7  But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
12:8  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
12:9  Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,
12:10  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
12:11  Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
12:12  With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
12:13  With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
12:14  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
12:15  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
12:16  With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
12:17  He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
12:18  He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.
12:19  He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.
12:20  He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
12:21  He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.
12:22  He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
12:23  He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
12:24  He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
12:25  They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.