🌪️WEB · Job 12:7

What does Job 12:7 mean?

"“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you."

— Job 12:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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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“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

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Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

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Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’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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