D.
The second round of debates
12:1—20:29
1.
Job's superiority complex in the matter of knowing God
12:1—13:2
Job 12
:1
12:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 12
:2
12:2
Surely then you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you.
Job 12
:3
12:3
I also have understanding as you do;
I am not inferior to you.
And who does not know things like these?
Job 12
:4
12:4
I have become a laughingstock to
1my friends,
I, who have called out to God and He answers
2me.
The righteous man, the perfect man, is a
alaughingstock.
Job 12
:5
12:5
There is contempt for calamity in the thought of him who is at ease:
It is prepared for those whose foot slips.
Job 12
:6
12:6
The tents of robbers prosper,
And those who provoke God have security,
Those who carry
their god in their
own 1might.
Job 12
:7
12:7
But ask now of the beasts, and they will
ateach you;
And of the birds of heaven, and they will tell you.
Job 12
:8
12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;
And the fish of the sea will declare to you.
Job 12
:9
12:9
Who among all these does not know
That the hand of Jehovah has done this,
Job 12
:10
12:10
In whose hand is the
1alife of every living thing
And the breath of all flesh of man?
Job 12
:11
12:11
Does not the ear
atry words
Even as the palate tastes food for itself?
Job 12
:12
12:12
In aged men,
you say, there is wisdom,
And in length of days there is understanding.
Job 12
:13
12:13
But with Him are
awisdom and might;
Counsel and understanding are His.
Job 12
:14
12:14
Indeed, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He shuts a man up, and
the door cannot be opened.
Job 12
:15
12:15
Indeed, He withholds the
awaters, and they dry up;
And He
bsends them forth, and they overturn the earth.
Job 12
:16
12:16
With Him are strength and effectual wisdom;
The deceived and the deceiver are His.
Job 12
:17
12:17
He leads
acounselors away stripped,
And He makes fools of judges.
Job 12
:18
12:18
He loosens the fetters of kings
And binds their loins with a belt.
Job 12
:19
12:19
He leads priests away stripped,
And He overturns dignitaries.
Job 12
:20
12:20
He removes the utterance of the trusty
And takes away the counsel of the elders.
Job 12
:21
12:21
He pours contempt upon the princes
And loosens the belt of the strong.
Job 12
:22
12:22
He uncovers the depths out of darkness
And
abrings to light the shadow of death.
Job 12
:23
12:23
He makes nations great and destroys them;
He expands nations and leads them off.
Job 12
:24
12:24
He removes the understanding of the heads of the people of the earth
And causes them to wander in a pathless waste.
Job 12
:25
12:25
They grope in darkness, and there is no light;
And He causes them to stagger like a drunken man.
