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title: "Job 12 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom. Job 12 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Job 12

Job 12 is chapter 12 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Job, answering, said:
2. Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
3. And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
4. He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
5. The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
6. The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
7. In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
8. Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.
9. Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things?
10. In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.
11. Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?
12. In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.
13. With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
14. If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.
15. If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.
16. With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.
17. He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.
18. He removes the belt of kings and encircles their waist with a rope.
19. He leads away priests in dishonor and displaces nobles,
20. altering the lips of those who speak the truth and sweeping away the teaching of the aged.
21. He pours disdain upon the leaders, relieving those who had been oppressed.
22. He reveals the depths of the darkness, and he brings the shadow of death into the light.
23. He multiplies peoples, and destroys them, and, having been overthrown, he restores them anew.
24. He transforms the heart of the leaders of the people on earth, and misleads those who in vain advance upon the inviolable.
25. They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.

## Job 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Job, dixit:
2. Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia?
3. Et mihi est cor sicut et vobis, nec inferior vestri sum; quis enim hæc quæ nostis ignorat?
4. Qui deridetur ab amico suo, sicut ego, invocabit Deum, et exaudiet eum: deridetur enim justi simplicitas.
5. Lampas contempta apud cogitationes divitum parata ad tempus statutum.
6. Abundant tabernacula prædonum, et audacter provocant Deum, cum ipse dederit omnia in manus eorum.
7. Nimirum interroga jumenta, et docebunt te; et volatilia cæli, et indicabunt tibi.
8. Loquere terræ, et respondebit tibi, et narrabunt pisces maris.
9. Quis ignorat quod omnia hæc manus Domini fecerit?
10. In cujus manu anima omnis viventis, et spiritus universæ carnis hominis.
11. Nonne auris verba dijudicat? et fauces comedentis, saporem?
12. In antiquis est sapientia, et in multo tempore prudentia.
13. Apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo; ipse habet consilium et intelligentiam.
14. Si destruxerit, nemo est qui ædificet; si incluserit hominem, nullus est qui aperiat.
15. Si continuerit aquas, omnia siccabuntur; et si emiserit eas, subvertent terram.
16. Apud ipsum est fortitudo et sapientia; ipse novit et decipientem, et eum qui decipitur.
17. Adducit consiliarios in stultum finem, et judices in stuporem.
18. Balteum regum dissolvit, et præcingit fune renes eorum.
19. Ducit sacerdotes inglorios, et optimates supplantat:
20. commutans labium veracium, et doctrinam senum auferens.
21. Effundit despectionem super principes, eos qui oppressi fuerant relevans.
22. Qui revelat profunda de tenebris, et producit in lucem umbram mortis.
23. Qui multiplicat gentes, et perdit eas, et subversas in integrum restituit.
24. Qui immutat cor principum populi terræ, et decipit eos ut frustra incedant per invium:
25. palpabunt quasi in tenebris, et non in luce, et errare eos faciet quasi ebrios.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).