en_cepher - Job 12 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ AND Iyov answered and said,

² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knows not such things as these?

⁴ I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon Eloah, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

⁵ He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke El are secure; into whose hand Eloah brings abundantly.

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell you:

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fish of the sea shall declare unto you.

⁹ Who knows not in all these that the hand of Yahuah has wrought this?

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

¹¹ Does not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

¹² With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

¹³ With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.

¹⁴ Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

¹⁵ Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

¹⁶ With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.

¹⁸ He looses the bond of kings, and girds their loins with a belt.

¹⁹ He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty.

²⁰ He removes away the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

²¹ He pours contempt upon princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

²² He discovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

²³ He increases the nations, and destroys them: he enlarges the nations, and straitens them again.

²⁴ He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

²⁵ They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.