# Job 12

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/12

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Job answered and said
2. Indeed, you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3. I too have a mind like yours; I do not fall short of you—who does not know such things as these?
4. I am a laughingstock to my friend—I call to God, and he answered me; the righteous blameless is a laughingstock.
5. The carefree hold the lamp in contempt within their thoughts; it stands ready for a slipping foot.
6. The dwellings of plunderers rest secure, and those who trouble God dwell safely—who carry God in their hands.
7. But ask the animals, please, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8. Or converse with the earth, and it will instruct you; the fish of the sea will recount to you.
9. Who does not know—in all these—that the hand of Yahweh has done this?
10. In whose hand is the life of all that lives and the breath of all mankind.
11. Doesn't the ear test words, as the palate tastes its food?
12. Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding with length of days.
13. With him are wisdom and might; counsel and understanding are his.
14. Behold, he demolishes, and it is not rebuilt; he imprisons a man, and he is not released.
15. Behold, he restrains the waters, and they dry up; he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16. With him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver belong to him.
17. He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges fools.
18. He unties the bond of kings and binds a girdle around their loins.
19. He leads plundered priests away and overthrows the mighty.
20. He deprives the trusted of speech and the elders of understanding.
21. He pours contempt on nobles, and loosens the belt of the mighty.
22. He reveals deep things from darkness, and brings the shadow of death to light.
23. He multiplies nations and destroys them; he spreads nations abroad and leads them away.
24. He deprives the leaders of the earth's peoples of understanding and leads them astray in a trackless waste.
25. They feel their way in darkness without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

## Nearby chapters

[Job 11](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/11.md)
[Job 13](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/13.md)

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