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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 neighbour, a man that called upon God, and he answered him: 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 fowls of the air, 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 LORD 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 meat?
12:12  With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
12:13  With him 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 effectual working; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
12:17  He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools.
12:18  He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
12:19  He leadeth priests away spoiled, 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 discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
12:23  He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he spreadeth the nations abroad, and bringeth them in.
12:24  He taketh away the heart of 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.