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Job 12:7
Job 12:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
King James Version
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
World English Bible
“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
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Job 12:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 21:29Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.