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“But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you;
    the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.
    The fish of the sea will declare to you.
Who doesn’t know that in all these,
    Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing,
    and the breath of all mankind?
11 Doesn’t the ear try words,
    even as the palate tastes its food?
12 With aged men is wisdom,
    in length of days understanding.

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But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee;
And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Who knoweth not [a]in all these,
That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,
And the [b]breath of all mankind?
11 Doth not the ear try words,
Even as the palate tasteth its food?
12 [c]With aged men is wisdom,
And in length of days understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 12:9 Or, by
  2. Job 12:10 Or, spirit
  3. Job 12:12 Or, With aged men, ye say, is wisdom