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12:1 Then Iob answered, and sayde,
12:2 In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
12:3 But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?
12:4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
12:5 Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
12:6 The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
12:7 Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:
12:8 Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.
12:9 Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?
12:10 In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
12:11 Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?
12:12 Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
12:13 With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
12:14 Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
12:15 Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
12:16 With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.
12:17 He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.
12:18 He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.
12:19 He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
12:20 He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.
12:21 He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
12:22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
12:23 He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.
12:24 He taketh away the heartes of the that are the chiefe ouer the people of the earth, and maketh them to wander in the wildernes out of the way.
12:25 They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man.