“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you;
the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 12:7 in context
Job 12:4–10
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
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.
It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6
The tents of robbers prosper.
Those who provoke God are secure,
who carry their god in their hands.
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Selected verse
“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you;
the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.
The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9
Who doesn’t know that in all these,
the LORD’s hand has done this,
10
in whose hand is the life of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind?
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