““But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.”
— WEB
Job 12:7
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“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:”
— KJV
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:”
— ASV
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Commentary
Beasts, birds, fishes, and plants, reasons Job, teach that the violent live the most securely (Job 12:6). The vulture lives more securely than the dove, the lion than the ox, the shark than the dolphin, the rose than the thorn which tears it.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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