### American Standard Version

Job 11

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 12
#### 1 | Then Job answered and said,
#### 2 | No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
#### 3 | But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
#### 4 | I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
#### 5 | In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
#### 6 | The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
#### 7 | But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:
#### 8 | Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
#### 9 | Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,
#### 10 | In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?
#### 11 | Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
#### 12 | With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
#### 13 | With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
#### 14 | Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
#### 15 | Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
#### 16 | With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
#### 17 | He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.
#### 18 | He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.
#### 19 | He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.
#### 20 | He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
#### 21 | He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.
#### 22 | He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
#### 23 | He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
#### 24 | He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
#### 25 | They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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