Job 12:1-9
English Standard Version
Chapter 12
1Then Job answered and said:
2"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
5In 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;
8or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
