Job 12
Job Chides His Accusers
1Then Job responded,
And with you wisdom will die!
I am not inferior to you.
And who does not know such things as these?
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.
As prepared for those whose feet slip.
And those who provoke God are secure,
Whom God brings into their power.
And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
And let the fish of the sea declare to you.
That the hand of the LORD has done this,
And the breath of all mankind?
As the palate tastes its food?
With long life is understanding.
To Him belong counsel and understanding.
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
The misled and the misleader belong to Him.
And makes fools of judges.
And binds their loins with a girdle.
And overthrows the secure ones.
And takes away the discernment of the elders.
And loosens the belt of the strong.
And brings the deep darkness into light.
He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.