🌪️WEB · Job 12:8
What does Job 12:8 mean?
"Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you."
— Job 12:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
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