Job 12:2-12

2Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!

3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?

4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon 1God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].

5He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

6The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke 2God are secure; into whose hand 3God bringeth.

7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the heavens, and they shall tell thee;

8Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

9Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this?

10In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all flesh of man.

11Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?

12With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.