Job 12

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        Job 12
      
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         1.  And Job answered and said,
      
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        <b>2.  No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.</b>
      
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        <b> 3.  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who 
        knoweth not such things as these?</b>
      
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        4.  I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the 
        just upright man is laughed to scorn.
      
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         5.  He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him 
        that is at ease.
      
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         6.  The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose 
        hand God bringeth abundantly.
      
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         7.  But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they 
        shall tell thee:
      
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         8.  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall 
        declare unto thee.
      
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         9.  Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
      
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         10.  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
      
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         11.  Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
      
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         12.  With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
      
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        13.  With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
      
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         14.  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and 
        there can be no opening.
      
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         15.  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and 
        they overturn the earth.
      
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         16.  With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
      
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         17.  He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
      
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         18.  He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
      
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         19.  He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
      
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         20.  He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the 
        aged.
      
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         21.  He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
      
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         22.  He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of 
        death.
      
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         23.  He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and 
        straiteneth them again.
      
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         24.  He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them 
        to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
      
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         25.  They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken 
        man.
      
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