Job Answers Zophar |
Job 12:1-25 Book of Job [in Smaller Chunks] |
Job answered & said, No doubt, you are the [intelligent] people & wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding, as well as you & I'm not inferior to you. [Yet,] who knows things such as these? |
I am [like someone] mocked [by] his neighbor, who calls upon God & [God] answers him. The just, upright man is laughed [at & looked down upon.] [Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon Me & I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble & I will deliver him & honor him.] |
[He who] is at ease, despised the thought [of] a lamp, [until] his feet [were about] ready to [stumble.] God brings abundantly into [the] hands of robbers [whose tents] prosper & those [who] provoke God are [safe.] [Psalm 73:12 [Look,] these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world & they increase in riches.] |
But ask the [animals] now & they shall teach you & the [birds] of the air shall tell you, or speak to the earth & it shall [instruct] you & the [fish] of the sea shall declare [it to] you. Who [doesn't] know that the Lord's hand has [brought about] all this? |
In Whose hand is the [life] of every living thing & the breath of all mankind? [Acts 17:28 For we live in Him & move & have our being. Also, certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.] |
Doesn't the ear [test the] words & the mouth taste [its] meat? With the [elders] is wisdom & in length of days [comes] understanding. With [God] is wisdom & strength. [God] has [advice] & understanding. [Look, God] breaks down & it can't be [rebuilt] again. He shuts a man up & there can't be [any release.] |
[Isaiah 25:2 For [God] has made a city a heap & ruin of a [fenced] city. A palace of [foreigners is] no [longer] a city & it shall never be [rebuilt.] [Look, God] withholds the waters & they dry up. Also, He sends them out & they [overflow] the earth. Strength & wisdom is with [God.] |
The deceived & the deceiver are [both] His. [God] leads [advisors] away [plundered] & makes the judges fools. He [bondage] of kings & [straps their waist with a belt.] |
[Isaiah 42:6-8 I, the Lord, have called You in righteousness & will hold Your hand & will keep You & will give You for a Covenant [contract] of the people & for a Light of the Gentiles; *To open the blind eyes, to bring prisoners out from the prison & [those who] sit in darkness, out of the prison houses. I Am the Lord: that is My Name & My glory I won’t give to another, neither My praise to [carved] images.] |
[God] leads princes away [plundered] & overthrows the mighty. He removes the speech of the [trustworthy] & takes away the understanding of the aged. [Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise. Neither do the [elders] understand judgment.] |
He pours [disgrace] upon princes & weakens the strength of the mighty. He [makes known] things [difficult to understand] out of darkness & brings the shadow of death to light. [God] increases the nations & destroys them. He enlarges the nations & [reduces] them again. |
[God] takes away the [wise] heart [of the leaders] of the people of the earth & causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no [road.] They grope [like] in the dark without light & He makes them stagger like a [drunk] man. |