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Job 12:7
“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
Job 12:7 · World English Bible
Job 12:7 in other translations
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
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In context
4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
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