Job 12:2-12

2No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

3But I also have a mind like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?

4I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.

5The one who is at ease holds calamity in contempt and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.

6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who trouble God are secure; God holds them in his hands.

7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?

10The life of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all humanity.

11Doesn’t the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.