Job 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you, and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Or speak to the earth [with its other forms of life], and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare [this truth] to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Common English Bible

⁸ or talk to earth, and it will teach you; the fish of the sea will recount it for you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 12:8 Cross References

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 12:7

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

Job 12:9

Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?