Job 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

Job 12:7

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

Job 12:9

Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of LORD hath wrought this?