# Daily Bible Reading | Job 12

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# ***JOB 12***

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Job Replies: The LORD Has Done This

\[1\] Then Job answered and said:

\[2\] “No doubt you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you.

\[3\] But I have understanding as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who does not know such things as these?

\[4\] I am a laughingstock to my friends;

I, who called to God and he answered me,

a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

\[5\] In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune;

it is ready for those whose feet slip.

\[6\] The tents of robbers are at peace,

and those who provoke God are secure,

who bring their god in their hand.

\[7\] “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;

the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

\[8\] or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;

and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

\[9\] Who among all these does not know

that the hand of the LORD has done this?

\[10\] In his hand is the life of every living thing

and the breath of all mankind.

\[11\] Does not the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

\[12\] Wisdom is with the aged,

and understanding in length of days.

\[13\] “With God are wisdom and might;

he has counsel and understanding.

\[14\] If he tears down, none can rebuild;

if he shuts a man in, none can open.

\[15\] If he withholds the waters, they dry up;

if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

\[16\] With him are strength and sound wisdom;

the deceived and the deceiver are his.

\[17\] He leads counselors away stripped,

and judges he makes fools.

\[18\] He looses the bonds of kings

and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

\[19\] He leads priests away stripped

and overthrows the mighty.

\[20\] He deprives of speech those who are trusted

and takes away the discernment of the elders.

\[21\] He pours contempt on princes

and loosens the belt of the strong.

\[22\] He uncovers the deeps out of darkness

and brings deep darkness to light.

\[23\] He makes nations great, and he destroys them;

he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

\[24\] He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth

and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

\[25\] They grope in the dark without light,

and he makes them stagger like a drunken man. (ESV)