# Job 12

> Lumin Translation

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

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Job answered:
2. “No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
3. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4. I have become a laughingstock to my friend—I, who called on God and he answered me. A righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
5. In the thoughts of those at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
6. The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, those who carry their god in their hand.
7. But ask the animals, and they will teach you, the birds of the sky, and they will tell you;
8. or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, and the fish of the sea will declare it to you.
9. Which of all these does not know that the hand of Yahweh has done this?
10. In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all humankind.
11. Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes its food?
12. Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding comes with long life.
13. With him are wisdom and might; counsel and understanding are his.
14. Look, what he tears down cannot be rebuilt; whom he shuts in cannot be let out.
15. Look, he holds back the waters, and they dry up; he sends them out, and they overturn the land.
16. With him are strength and sound wisdom; the one led astray and the one who leads astray are his.
17. He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.
18. He loosens the bonds of kings and ties a loincloth around their waists.
19. He leads priests away stripped and overthrows those long secure.
20. He silences trusted advisers and takes away the discernment of the elders.
21. He pours contempt on nobles and loosens the belt of the strong.
22. He uncovers deep things out of darkness and brings deep shadow into the light.
23. He makes nations great, then destroys them; he enlarges nations, then leads them away.
24. He takes away the understanding of the leaders of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
25. They grope in darkness with no light; 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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