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12:1  And Job answered:
12:2  “No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
12:3  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?
12:4  “I am a laughingstock to my neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him; the righteous, upright man is a laughingstock.
12:5  He whose foot is unsteady is despised in the thoughts of him who is at ease.
12:6  The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, into whose hand they bring their own god.
12:7  “But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you; and the birds of the air, and let them tell you;
12:8  or speak to the earth, let it teach you; and let the fish of the sea declare to 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 soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind?
12:11  Does not the ear test words and the mouth taste its food?
12:12  Wisdom is with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
12:13  “With Him are wisdom and strength; He has counsel and understanding.
12:14  Surely, He tears down, and it cannot be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
12:15  Surely, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overthrow the earth.
12:16  With Him are strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
12:17  He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.
12:18  He has loosened the bonds imposed by kings and bound their waist with a belt.
12:19  He leads away priests stripped and overthrows the mighty.
12:20  He removes speech from the trusted ones and takes away the understanding of the aged.
12:21  He pours contempt upon princes and loosens the belt of the mighty.
12:22  He uncovers deep things out of darkness and brings the shadow of death to light.
12:23  He increases the nations and destroys them; He enlarges the nations and guides them.
12:24  He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
12:25  They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them to stagger like a drunk man.