New English Translation

Job 12:5-9 New English Translation (NET)

5. For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

6. But the tents of robbers are peaceful,and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

7. “But now, ask the animals and they will teach you,or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

8. Or speak to the earth and it will teach you,or let the fish of the sea declare to you.

9. Which of all these does not knowthat the hand of the Lord has done this,