Job 12
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Job 12
Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock
1Then Job answered:
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?
4 #
Job 16.10, 20; Ps 91.15 I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called upon God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
5 #
Ps 123.4
Those at ease have contempt for misfortune,#12.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.
6 #
Job 9.24; 21.9; 22.18 The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hands.#12.6 Or whom God brought forth by his hand; meaning of Heb uncertain
7“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8ask the plants of the earth,#12.8 Or speak to the earth and they will teach you,
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 #
Isa 41.20
Who among all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 #
Job 27.3; Acts 17.28 In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of every human being.
11 #
Job 34.3
Does not the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
12 #
Job 32.7
Is wisdom with the aged
and understanding in length of days?
13 #
Job 9.4; 11.6 “With God#12.13 Heb him are wisdom and strength;
he has counsel and understanding.
14 #
Job 19.10; 37.7 If he tears down, no one can rebuild;
if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
15 #
Gen 7.11; 1 Kings 8.35 If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
16 #
Job 13.7, 9 With him are strength and wisdom;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 #
Job 3.14; 9.24 He leads counselors away stripped
and makes fools of judges.
18 #
Ps 116.16
He looses the sash of kings
and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
19He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows the mighty.
20 #
Job 32.9
He deprives of speech those who are trusted
and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 #
Ps 107.40
He pours contempt on princes
and looses the belt of the strong.
22 #
Job 3.5; Dan 2.22; 1 Cor 4.5 He uncovers deep things from the darkness
and brings deep darkness to light.
23 #
Deut 12.20; Ps 78.61; 107.38; Isa 9.3; Jer 25.9 He makes nations great, then destroys them;
he enlarges nations, then leads them away.
24 #
Ps 107.40
He strips understanding from the leaders#12.24 Heb adds of the people of the earth
and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25 #
Ps 107.27
They grope in the dark without light;
he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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Job 12
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Job 12
Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock
1Then Job answered:
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?
4 #
Job 16.10, 20; Ps 91.15 I am a laughingstock to my friends;
I, who called upon God and he answered me,
a just and blameless man, I am a laughingstock.
5 #
Ps 123.4
Those at ease have contempt for misfortune,#12.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
but it is ready for those whose feet are unstable.
6 #
Job 9.24; 21.9; 22.18 The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hands.#12.6 Or whom God brought forth by his hand; meaning of Heb uncertain
7“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
8ask the plants of the earth,#12.8 Or speak to the earth and they will teach you,
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 #
Isa 41.20
Who among all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 #
Job 27.3; Acts 17.28 In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of every human being.
11 #
Job 34.3
Does not the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?
12 #
Job 32.7
Is wisdom with the aged
and understanding in length of days?
13 #
Job 9.4; 11.6 “With God#12.13 Heb him are wisdom and strength;
he has counsel and understanding.
14 #
Job 19.10; 37.7 If he tears down, no one can rebuild;
if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.
15 #
Gen 7.11; 1 Kings 8.35 If he withholds the waters, they dry up;
if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
16 #
Job 13.7, 9 With him are strength and wisdom;
the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 #
Job 3.14; 9.24 He leads counselors away stripped
and makes fools of judges.
18 #
Ps 116.16
He looses the sash of kings
and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
19He leads priests away stripped
and overthrows the mighty.
20 #
Job 32.9
He deprives of speech those who are trusted
and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21 #
Ps 107.40
He pours contempt on princes
and looses the belt of the strong.
22 #
Job 3.5; Dan 2.22; 1 Cor 4.5 He uncovers deep things from the darkness
and brings deep darkness to light.
23 #
Deut 12.20; Ps 78.61; 107.38; Isa 9.3; Jer 25.9 He makes nations great, then destroys them;
he enlarges nations, then leads them away.
24 #
Ps 107.40
He strips understanding from the leaders#12.24 Heb adds of the people of the earth
and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
25 #
Ps 107.27
They grope in the dark without light;
he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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