en_wbms - Job 12 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Soothly Job answered, and said,

² And ye therefore be men alone, and wisdom dwell with you?

³ And to me is an heart, as and to you, and I am not lower than ye; for who knoweth not these things, which ye know?

⁴ He that is scorned of his friend, as I am, shall inwardly call God, and God shall hear him; for the simpleness of a just [or rightwise] man is scorned.

⁵ And a lamp is despised at the thoughts of rich men, the which lamp is made ready to a time ordained.

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers be plenteous [or abound], either full of goods; and boldly they stir God to wrath, when he hath given all things into their hands.

⁷ No wonder, ask thou [the] beasts, and they shall teach thee; and ask thou [the] birds of the air, and they shall show to thee.

⁸ Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee; and the fishes of the sea shall tell those things.

⁹ Who knoweth not that the hand of the Lord made all these things?

¹⁰ In whose hand the soul is of each living thing, and the spirit of each flesh of man.

¹¹ Whether the ear deemeth not words, and the cheeks of the eater deem savour, or the taste of meat?

¹² Wisdom is in eld [or old] men, and prudence is in much time.

¹³ Wisdom and strength is with God; he hath counsel and understanding.

¹⁴ If he destroyeth, there is no man that buildeth; if he shutteth in a man, there is none that openeth.

¹⁵ If he holdeth altogether waters, all things shall be made dry; and if he sendeth out those waters, they shall destroy the earth.

¹⁶ Strength and wisdom is with God; he knoweth both him that deceiveth and him that is deceived.

¹⁷ And he bringeth counsellors into a fond [or foolish] end, and judges into wondering, either astonishing.

¹⁸ He unbindeth the girdle of kings, and girdeth their reins with a cord.

¹⁹ He leadeth their priests without glory, and he deceiveth the principal men;

²⁰ and he changeth the lips of sooth-fast men, and taketh away the doctrine of eld [or old] men.

²¹ He sheddeth [or poureth] out despising on princes, and relieveth them, that were oppressed.

²² He showeth deep things from darknesses; and he bringeth forth into light the shadow of death.

²³ He multiplieth folks, and he loseth them; and he restoreth them, when they be destroyed, into whole number.

²⁴ He changeth the heart of [the] princes of the people of [the] earth; and deceiveth them, that they go in vain out of the way.

²⁵ They shall grope, as in darknesses, and not in light; and he shall make them to err as drunken men.