Job 12:8-10

⁸Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish in the sea speak to you.

⁹For they all know that my disaster has come from the hand of the Lord.

¹⁰For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.a

In Job 12, Job delivers a sharp, sarcastic rebuttal to Zophar's simplistic theology. He mocks his friends' claim to exclusive wisdom, insisting that even the animals and the earth itself know that God is sovereign over all — including the wicked who prosper and the righteous who

References· Job 12

a: v.10 — Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Acts 17:25, Numbers 16:22, Job 27:3, Daniel 5:23, Psalms 146:3-4, Psalms 104:29, John 3:6, Job 34:14-15
b: v.22 — Daniel 2:22, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 2:10, Job 3:5, Luke 1:79, Amos 5:8, Matthew 10:26, Psalms 44:21, Job 28:20-23, Job 34:22

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