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Job Chapter 12

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Job 12

1Then Iob answered, and sayde,
2In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
Job 17:10, 1 Corinthians 6:5, Job 11:12, Proverbs 28:11, Job 11:2
3But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?
Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 13:2, Job 13:5, Job 6:6
4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
Job 21:3, Job 17:6, Psalms 91:15, Job 30:1, Job 21:3
5Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5, Proverbs 13:9, Matthew 25:8, Psalms 17:5
6The tabernacles of robbers doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
Job 9:24, Job 9:24, Psalms 73:11, Psalms 73:12, Job 21:7
7Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, and they shall tell thee:
Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 1:3, Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 6:6, Jeremiah 8:7
8Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.
9Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?
Isaiah 41:20, Isaiah 41:20, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Romans 11:36
10In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
Acts 17:28, Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Job 33:4, Numbers 16:22
11Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?
Job 34:3, Job 34:3, Philippians 1:10, Hebrews 5:14, Job 6:30
12Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
Job 32:7, Job 32:7, Job 15:10, Job 15:10, Job 8:8
13With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Job 36:5, Job 9:4, Proverbs 2:6
14Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Isaiah 22:22, Revelation 3:7, Malachi 1:4
15Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 17:1, Job 12:10, Luke 4:25, James 5:17
16With him is strength and wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.
Job 13:9, Ezekiel 14:9, 1 Kings 22:22, 1 Kings 22:23, Job 13:9
17He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.
Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 29:14, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:19
18He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.
Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:21, Jeremiah 52:31, Jeremiah 52:34, Psalms 116:16
19He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
Revelation 17:14, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 37:38, Joshua 10:42, Job 24:22
20He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.
Job 32:9, Job 32:9, Job 17:4, Job 12:24, Job 17:4
21He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:22, Isaiah 24:21
22He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:22, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 2:10
23He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.
Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Isaiah 9:3, Isaiah 26:15, Psalms 107:38
24He 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.
Psalms 107:40, Psalms 107:40, Job 12:20, Job 12:20, Hosea 7:11
25They grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man.
Job 5:14, Job 5:14, Psalms 107:27, Psalms 107:27, Isaiah 19:14

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