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Job Chapter 12

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JOB

Job 12

1Then Job answered, and said:
2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
Job 17:10, 1 Corinthians 6:5, Job 11:12, Proverbs 28:11, Job 11:2
3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 6:6
4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
Job 21:3, Job 17:6, Psalms 91:15, Job 30:1, Job 21:3
5The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5, Proverbs 13:9, Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5
6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:
Job 9:24, Job 9:24, Psalms 73:11, Psalms 73:12, Job 21:7
7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.
Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 1:3, Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 6:6, Jeremiah 8:7
8Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.
9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?
Isaiah 41:20, Isaiah 41:20, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Romans 11:36
10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
Acts 17:28, Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Job 33:4, Numbers 16:22
11Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?
Job 34:3, Job 34:3, Philippians 1:10, Hebrews 5:14, Job 6:30
12In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.
Job 32:7, Job 32:7, Job 15:10, Job 15:10, Job 8:8
13With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Proverbs 2:6
14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.
Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Malachi 1:4
15If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.
1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Job 12:10, Luke 4:25, James 5:17
16With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.
Job 13:9, Ezekiel 14:9, 1 Kings 22:22, 1 Kings 22:23, Job 13:9
17He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.
Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 29:14, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:19
18He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:21, Jeremiah 52:31, Jeremiah 52:34, Psalms 116:16
19He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.
Revelation 17:14, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 37:38, Joshua 10:42, Job 24:22
20He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
Job 32:9, Job 32:9, Job 17:4, Job 12:24, Job 17:4
21He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.
Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:22, Isaiah 24:21
22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.
Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:22, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 2:10
23He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.
Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Psalms 107:38
24He changeth the heart of the princes of the people of the earth, and deceiveth them that they walk in vain where there is no way.
Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Job 12:20, Job 12:20, Hosea 7:11
25They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
Job 5:14, Job 5:14, Psalms 107:27, Psalms 107:27, Isaiah 19:14

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