{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 12
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-12:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.1",
        "text": "Then Job answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-12:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.2",
        "text": "No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-12:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.3",
        "text": "But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-12:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.4",
        "text": "I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-12:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.5",
        "text": "In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt       for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-12:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.6",
        "text": "The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly]."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-12:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.7",
        "text": "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-12:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.8",
        "text": "Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-12:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.9",
        "text": "Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-12:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.10",
        "text": "In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-12:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.11",
        "text": "Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-12:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.12",
        "text": "With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-12:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.13",
        "text": "With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-12:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.14",
        "text": "Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-12:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.15",
        "text": "Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-12:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.16",
        "text": "With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-12:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.17",
        "text": "He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-12:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.18",
        "text": "He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-12:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.19",
        "text": "He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-12:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.20",
        "text": "He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-12:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.21",
        "text": "He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-12:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.22",
        "text": "He uncovereth deep things out of darkness,  And bringeth out to light the shadow of death."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-12:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.23",
        "text": "He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-12:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.24",
        "text": "He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the       people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-12:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.12.25",
        "text": "They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man."
      }
    ]
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/12",
    "book": "/v1/library/books/job/",
    "chapters": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/",
    "library": "/v1/library/",
    "schema": "/v1/schema/book/"
  }
}