Job 12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 12Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock

1Then Job answered:

2“No doubt you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you.

3But I have understanding as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who does not know such things as these?

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but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.

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7“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,

the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

8ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you,

and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

9 are wisdom and strength;

he has counsel and understanding.

14 of the earth

and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

25 Ps 107.27 They grope in the dark without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.