{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/12","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:41:44.583Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":12,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":11,"nextChapter":13,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I 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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"|With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 12 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 12](https://primebible.com/web/job/12)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/12 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}