Job 12:7
Good News Translation
Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;

New Revised Standard Version
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

Contemporary English Version
If you want to learn, then go and ask the wild animals and the birds,

New American Bible
But now ask the beasts to teach you, the birds of the air to tell you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

But ask

Job 21:29,30 Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things. . . .

Proverbs 6:6 Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Jeremiah 8:7 The kite in the air hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgment of the Lord.

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
6The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands: 7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.8Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.…
Cross References
Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands:

Job 12:8
Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

Job 12:6
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