Job 12:2-12

2“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

4I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

5For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

6But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

71“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

8Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

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

10in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

11Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?