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Job 12:8

Verse 8 of 25. The 12th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

7“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.

9Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,

10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

11Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.