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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/12.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job Answers His Critics</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-12-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“No doubt you <i>are</i> the people,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-2">And wisdom will die with you!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But I have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>understanding as well as you;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-3">I <i>am</i> not inferior to you.</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-3">Indeed, who does not <i>know</i> such things as these?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“I am one mocked by his friends,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-4">Who called on God, and He answered him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-4">The just and blameless <i>who is</i> ridiculed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-5"><i>It is</i> made ready for those whose feet slip.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The tents of robbers prosper,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-6">And those who provoke God are secure—</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-6">In what God provides by His hand.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-7">And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-8">And the fish of the sea will explain to you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Who among all these does not know</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-9">That the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has done this,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In whose hand <i>is</i> the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>life of every living thing,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-10">And the breath of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>all mankind?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Does not the ear test words</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-11">And the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>mouth taste its food?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Wisdom <i>is</i> with aged men,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-12">And with <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>length of days, understanding.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“With Him <i>are</i> wisdom and strength,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-13">He has counsel and understanding.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If He breaks <i>a thing</i> down, it cannot be rebuilt;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-14"><i>If</i> He imprisons a man, there can be no release.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If He withholds the waters, they dry up;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-15"><i>If</i> He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>With Him <i>are</i> strength and prudence.</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-16">The deceived and the deceiver <i>are</i> His.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He leads counselors away plundered,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-17">And makes fools of the judges.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He loosens the bonds of kings,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-18">And binds their waist with a belt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He leads <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>princes away plundered,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-19">And overthrows the mighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He deprives the trusted ones of speech,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-20">And takes away the discernment of the elders.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He pours contempt on princes,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-21">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>disarms the mighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He uncovers deep things out of darkness,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-22">And brings the shadow of death to light.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He makes nations great, and destroys them;</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-23">He <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>enlarges nations, and guides them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He takes away the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-24">And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They grope in the dark without light,</span><br /><span class="text Job-12-25">And He makes them stagger like a drunken <i>man.</i></span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13132a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:3">Job 12:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>a heart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13134b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:5">Job 12:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>disaster</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13139c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:10">Job 12:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>soul</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13139d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:10">Job 12:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>all flesh of men</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13140e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:11">Job 12:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>palate</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13141f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:12">Job 12:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Long life</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13148g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:19">Job 12:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>priests,</i> but not in a technical sense</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13150h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:21">Job 12:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>loosens the belt of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13152i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:23">Job 12:23</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>spreads out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13153j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 12:24">Job 12:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>heart</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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