Job 12

Job 12:4

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him.

I am as one mocked and scorned of you my neighbours; and yet, how meanly so ever ye please to think of me, I am, in my faithful invocations upon God, heard, and graciously answered by him.

Job 12:5

He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

He that is near to his ruin, as I now am, is, unto those that prosper and are at ease, like unto a lamp, that is near burning out to the very snuff; and therefore despised by them for the present, however it have formerly shined.

Job 12:12

13. With the ancient is wisdom. With him is wisdom.

You have told me of your age and wise experience, wherein I detract nothing from you; but what is your wisdom to God’s? He is only, and allwise, &c.