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Job 12 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 When Job answered, and said:
1 Then Job answered,
2 Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 He 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.
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 The lamp despised in the thoughts of the rich, is ready for the time appointed.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a. man, there is none that can open.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and relieveth them that were oppressed.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth up to light the shadow of death.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He multiplieth nations, and destroyeth them, and restoreth them again after they were overthrown.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 He 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.
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They shall grope as in the dark, and not in the light, and he shall make them stagger like men that are drunk.
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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)