en_cjb - Job 12 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Iyov responded:

² “No doubt you are [the only] people [that matter]; and when you die, so will wisdom.

³ But I too have a brain, as much as you, In no way am I inferior to you. Besides, who doesn’t know things like these?

⁴ “Anyone who calls on God, and he answers him, becomes a laughingstock to his friends — they make fun of an innocent, blameless man.

⁵ Those at ease have contempt for misfortune, for the blow that strikes somebody already staggering.

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.

⁷ “But ask the animals — they will teach you — and the birds in the air — they will tell you;

⁸ or speak to the earth — it will teach you — and the fish in the sea will inform you:

⁹ every one of them knows that the hand of ADONAI has done this!

¹⁰ In his hand is the life of every living thing and the spirit of every human being.

¹¹ Shouldn’t the ear test words, just as the palate tastes food?

¹² Is wisdom [only] with aged men? discernment [only] with long life?

¹³ “With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.

¹⁴ When he breaks something down, it can’t be rebuilt; when he imprisons someone, he can’t be released.

¹⁵ When he holds back water, there is drought; when he sends it out, it overruns the land.

¹⁶ With him are strength and common sense; both the misled and those who mislead are his.

¹⁷ He leads counselors away captive, he makes fools of judges.

¹⁸ He removes authority from kings, then binds them up [as prisoners].

¹⁹ He leads cohanim away captive and overthrows those long in power.

²⁰ Those who are trusted he deprives of speech, and he removes the discernment of the aged.

²¹ He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

²² He discloses the deepest recesses of darkness and brings light into shadows dark as death.

²³ He makes nations great and destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.

²⁴ He removes understanding from a country’s leaders and makes them wander in trackless deserts.

²⁵ They grope in unlit darkness; he makes them stagger like drunks.