For May the 23rd 2013

5/23/13

Job 12:1  Then Job answered and said:

Job 12:2  "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

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

Job 12:4  I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

Job 12:5  In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.

Job 12:6  The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

Job 12:7  "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

Job 12:8  or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

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

Job 12:10  In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:11  Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

Job 12:12  Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job 12:13  "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

Job 12:14  If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Job 12:15  If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

Job 12:16  With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 12:17  He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

Job 12:18  He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

Job 12:19  He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.

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

Job 12:21  He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 12:22  He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.

Job 12:23  He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

Job 12:24  He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless waste.

Job 12:25  They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.

If you are not familiar with who Job is or what has happened to him read the first 2 chapters and then come back here and read this over again.

 God is God and we are not!