Job 12:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:29-30 : 29 Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts– 30 that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?
  • Prov 6:6 : 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”
  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the LORD, require of them.

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