Job 12:1-10

New King James Version

² “No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you!
³ But I have ^[a]understanding as well as you;
I am not ^(A)inferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

⁴ “I^(B) am one mocked by his friends,
Who ^(C)called on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.
⁵ A ^[b]lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;
It is made ready for ^(D)those whose feet slip.
^6 (E)The tents of robbers prosper,
And those who provoke God are secure—
In what God provides by His hand.

⁷ “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
And the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;
And the fish of the sea will explain to you.
⁹ Who among all these does not know
That the hand of the Lord has done this,
^10 (F)In whose hand is the ^[c]life of every living thing,
And the ^(G)breath of ^[d]all mankind?