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Job 12

¹Yes, you are the voice of the people. When you die, wisdom will die with you.

³But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.

⁴Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.

⁵You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me; you hit someone who is about to fall.

⁶But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.

⁷Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;

⁸ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.

⁹All of them know that the LORD's hand made them.

¹⁰It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

¹¹But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food, your ears enjoy hearing words.

¹²Old people have wisdom, but God has wisdom and power. Old people have insight; God has insight and power to act.

¹⁴When God tears down, who can rebuild, and who can free those God imprisons?

¹⁵Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose.

¹⁶God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in his power.

¹⁷He takes away the wisdom of rulers and makes leaders act like fools.

¹⁸He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;

¹⁹he humbles priests and men of power.

²⁰He silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away.

²¹He disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of rulers.

²²He sends light to places dark as death.

²³He makes nations strong and great, but then he defeats and destroys them.

²⁴He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost;

²⁵they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.