Job 12:8
Good News Translation
ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.

New Revised Standard Version
ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

Contemporary English Version
the flowers and the fish.

New American Bible
Or speak to the earth to instruct you, and the fish of the sea to inform you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
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.9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?…
Cross References
Job 12:7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Job 12:9
Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?

Job 12:7
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