Job 12

¹Then Iob answered, and sayde,

²In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.

³But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

⁴I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

⁵Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.

⁶The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.

⁷Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:

⁸Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.

⁹Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?

¹⁰In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.

¹¹Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?

¹²Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.

¹³With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.

¹⁴Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.