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    Job 12

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    Job sends wisdom out into the fields, the sky, the soil, and the sea—and finds that even the fish know whose hand is at work.

    A laughingstock among the comfortablevv. 1–6

    Job answers his friends with the sort of courtesy that arrives wearing its hat backwards: if their wisdom dies with them, it will not leave much of a will behind. He is no inferior, he says, yet a laughingstock even though he called on God and God answered. The comfortable scorn the slipping, while robbers sit safely in their tents and those who provoke God remain secure, carrying their god in their hands.

    Lessons from the living worldvv. 7–12

    Job recommends a remarkably broad faculty of teachers: animals, birds, the earth, and the fish of the sea. All of them know that the LORD’s hand has done this, because every living thing and every human breath rests in His hand. Wisdom is then brought back indoors, where the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food, and the elderly receive their due—though Job has just been making rather free with the wisdom of his elders.

    The great overturningvv. 13–25

    Job turns from the testimony of creatures to the power of God, whose wisdom and strength undo every human arrangement. What He tears down stays down; waters may vanish or overwhelm the land at His choosing. Counselors are led barefoot, judges made fools, priests overthrown, kings unfastened, nobles held in contempt, and the mighty disarmed. Nations rise and scatter, leaders lose their reason, and the final procession is conducted in darkness, with everyone staggering like drunkards.

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    1. Job 12:1Then Job answered:

    2. Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

    3. Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

    4. Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

    5. Job 12:5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

    6. Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

    7. Job 12:7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

    8. Job 12:8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

    9. Job 12:9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

    10. Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

    11. Job 12:11Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

    12. Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

    13. Job 12:13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

    14. Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

    15. Job 12:15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

    16. Job 12:16True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

    17. Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

    18. Job 12:18He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

    19. Job 12:19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.

    20. Job 12:20He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

    21. Job 12:21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

    22. Job 12:22He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

    23. Job 12:23He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

    24. Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

    25. Job 12:25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.’’

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    • 22Daniel 2:22He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
    • 10Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
    • 10Job 33:4The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
    • 221 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
    • 10Acts 17:25Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
    • 7Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
    • 9Isaiah 41:20so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”
    • 10Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
    • 10Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
    • 12Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.
    • 221 Corinthians 2:10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
    • 9Jeremiah 27:5–6By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.
    • 10Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
    • 11Job 34:3For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
    • 13Job 36:5Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
    • 14Isaiah 22:22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

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