Job 12:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For ask now the animals, and they will teach you [that God does not deal with His creatures according to their character]; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

Common English Bible

⁷ But ask Behemoth, and he will teach you, the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.

Job 12:7 Cross References

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways and be wise.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows its times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane observe the time of their coming, but my people do not know the ordinance of the Lord.

Romans 1:20

Ever since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been seen and understood through the things God has made. So they are without excuse,

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Job 12:8

ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you, and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:25

God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind and the cattle of every kind and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Proverbs 30:24

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise: