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1 Then Iob answered, and sayde,
1 Then Job answered,
2 In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?
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 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.
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 Hee that is readie to fall, is as a lampe despised in the opinion of the riche.
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 doe prosper, and they are in safetie, that prouoke God, whome God hath enriched with his hand.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 Aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the foules of the heauen, 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 Or speake to the earth, and it shall shewe thee: or the fishes of the sea, and they shall declare vnto thee.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who is ignorant of all these, but that the hande of the Lord hath made these?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 In whose hande is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 Among the ancient is wisedome, and in the length of dayes is vnderstanding.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy 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 wisedome: hee that is deceiued, and that deceiueth, are his.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the people, and destroyeth them: he inlargeth the nations, and bringeth them in againe.
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 He 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.
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 grope in the darke without light: and he maketh the to stagger like a drunken man.
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

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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).

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“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)