Job 12

1Then Job answered,

2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.Cross-references: Job 6:24 · Job 8:8 · Job 11:2 · Job 11:6 · Job 11:12 · Job 15:2 · +8 more

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?Cross-references: Job 6:6 · Job 13:2 · Job 26:2 · Prov 26:4 · 2Cor 11:5 · 2Cor 11:21

4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.Cross-references: Job 6:29 · Job 11:3 · Job 16:10 · Job 16:20 · Job 17:2 · Job 17:6 · +13 more

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Job 6:5 · Job 16:4 · Job 18:5 · Ps 17:5 · Ps 94:18 · +8 more

6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.Cross-references: Job 9:24 · Job 21:7 · Job 22:18 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 37:1 · Ps 37:35 · +2 more

7“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.Cross-references: Job 21:29 · Prov 6:6 · Isa 1:3 · Jer 8:7

8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.

9Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · 1Sam 2:7 · Job 12:3 · Job 22:18 · Isa 41:20 · Jer 27:5 · +5 more

10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Gen 6:17 · Num 16:22 · Job 27:3 · Job 33:4 · Job 34:14 · +6 more

11Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?Cross-references: Job 6:30 · Job 34:3 · 1Cor 10:15 · Phil 1:10 · Heb 5:14 · 1Pet 2:3

12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.Cross-references: Job 8:8 · Job 15:10 · Job 32:7

13“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.Cross-references: Job 9:4 · Job 11:6 · Job 12:16 · Job 28:20 · Job 32:6 · Job 36:5 · +15 more

14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:46 · 1Sam 24:18 · 1Sam 26:8 · Job 9:12 · Job 11:10 · Job 16:11 · +10 more

15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.Cross-references: Gen 6:13 · Gen 6:17 · Gen 7:11 · Deut 11:17 · 1Ki 8:35 · 1Ki 17:1 · +8 more

16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:22 · Job 12:13 · Job 13:7 · Job 13:9 · Ezek 14:9 · Matt 6:13

17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · 2Sam 17:23 · Job 3:14 · Job 9:24 · Isa 19:12 · +2 more

18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:11 · Ps 116:16 · Jer 52:31 · Dan 2:21 · Rev 19:16

19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.Cross-references: Josh 10:24 · Josh 10:42 · 1Sam 17:45 · Job 24:22 · Job 34:28 · Job 35:9 · +4 more

20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.Cross-references: Job 12:24 · Job 17:4 · Job 32:9 · Job 39:17 · Prov 10:21 · Prov 12:19 · +2 more

21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.Cross-references: Ex 8:2 · Ex 16:24 · 1Ki 21:23 · 2Ki 9:26 · 2Ki 9:34 · Ps 107:40 · +12 more

22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:12 · Job 3:5 · Job 11:6 · Job 24:17 · Job 28:20 · Job 34:22 · +8 more

23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.Cross-references: Ex 1:7 · Ex 1:20 · Ps 107:38 · Isa 9:3 · Isa 26:15 · Isa 27:6 · +5 more

24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.Cross-references: Job 12:20 · Job 17:4 · Ps 107:4 · Ps 107:40 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 19:1 · +3 more

25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · Deut 28:29 · Job 5:14 · Ps 107:27 · Isa 19:14 · Isa 24:20 · +3 more