Job - Chapter 12 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Yes, you are the voice of the people. When you die, wisdom will die with you.
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 12:1)}
  • 3. But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.
  • 4. Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.
  • 5. You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me; you hit someone who is about to fall.
  • 6. But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.
  • 7. Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;
  • 8. ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.
  • 9. All of them know that the LORD's hand made them.
  • 10. It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.
  • 11. But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food, your ears enjoy hearing words.
  • 12. Old people have wisdom, but God has wisdom and power. Old people have insight; God has insight and power to act.
  • 13. {cf15I (SEE 12:12)}
  • 14. When God tears down, who can rebuild, and who can free those God imprisons?
  • 15. Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose.
  • 16. God is strong and always victorious; both deceived and deceiver are in his power.
  • 17. He takes away the wisdom of rulers and makes leaders act like fools.
  • 18. He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;
  • 19. he humbles priests and men of power.
  • 20. He silences those who are trusted, and takes the wisdom of old people away.
  • 21. He disgraces those in power and puts an end to the strength of rulers.
  • 22. He sends light to places dark as death.
  • 23. He makes nations strong and great, but then he defeats and destroys them.
  • 24. He makes their leaders foolish and lets them wander confused and lost;
  • 25. they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.
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