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1 Then Job answered: 2 “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! 3 But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock. 5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping. 6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands. 7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind. 11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food? 12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life. 13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His. 14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. 15 If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. 16 True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His. 17 He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges. 18 He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists. 19 He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established. 20 He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders. 21 He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty. 22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light. 23 He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them. 24 He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland. 25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Cross references (23)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
  2. 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
  3. 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
  4. 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
  5. 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
  6. 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
  7. 9 Isaiah 41:20; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Romans 11:36; Acts 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
  8. 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
  9. 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
  10. 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
  11. 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
  12. 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
  13. 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
  14. 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
  15. 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
  16. 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
  17. 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
  18. 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
  19. 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
  20. 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
  21. 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
  22. 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
  23. 25 Job 5:14; Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 19:14; Deuteronomy 28:29

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 12:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XI)

    Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)