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Job Chapter 12 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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BBE Job 12:8

Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.
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DARBY Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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KJV Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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WBT Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.
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WEB Job 12:8

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
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YLT Job 12:8

Or talk to the earth, and it sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. If the material earth be intended, the appeal must be to its orderly course, its summers and winters, its seedtime and harvest, its former and latter rains, its constant productivity, which, no less than animal instincts, speak of a single ruling power directing and ordering all things. If the creeping things of the earth, the reptile creation, be meant, then the argument is merely an expansion of that in the preceding verse. The instincts of reptiles are to be ascribed, no less than those of beasts and birds, to the constant superintending action and providence of the Almighty. And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. The testimony will be unanimous - beasts, birds, reptiles, and fishes will unite in it.

Ellicott's Commentary