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12:1  Then Job responded,
12:2  “Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
12:3  But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
12:4  I am a joke to my friends, The one who called on God and He answered him; The just and blameless man is a joke.
12:5  He who is at ease holds disaster in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.
12:6  The tents of the destroyers prosper, And those who provoke God are secure, Whom God brings into their power.
12:7  “But just ask the animals, and have them teach you; And the birds of the sky, and have them tell you.
12:8  Or speak to the earth, and have it teach you; And have the fish of the sea tell you.
12:9  Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,
12:10  In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
12:11  Does the ear not put words to the test, As the palate tastes its food?
12:12  Wisdom is with the aged, And with long life comes understanding.
12:13  “Wisdom and might are with Him; Advice and understanding belong to Him.
12:14  Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a person, and there is no release.
12:15  Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
12:16  Strength and sound wisdom are with Him. One who goes astray and one who leads astray belong to Him.
12:17  He makes advisers walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
12:18  He undoes the binding of kings, And ties a loincloth around their waist.
12:19  He makes priests walk barefoot, And overthrows the secure ones.
12:20  He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.
12:21  He pours contempt on nobles, And loosens the belt of the strong.
12:22  He reveals mysteries from the darkness, And brings the deep darkness into light.
12:23  He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
12:24  He deprives the leaders of the earth’s people of intelligence And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
12:25  They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken person.