Job 12:8
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Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee. 8Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.9Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?…
Cross References
Job 12:7
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Job 12:9
Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord hath made all these things?

Lexicon
Or
א֤וֹ (’ōw)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 176: Desire, if

speak
שִׂ֣יחַ (śî·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7878: To muse, complain, talk (of)

to the earth,
לָאָ֣רֶץ (lā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and it will teach you;
וְתֹרֶ֑ךָּ (wə·ṯō·re·kā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3384: To flow as water, to lay, throw, to point out, to teach

let the fish
דְּגֵ֣י (də·ḡê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1709: A fish

of the sea
הַיָּֽם׃ (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

inform
וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּ (wî·sap·pə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

you.
לְ֝ךָ֗ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you: and the fishes of the sea shall declare to you.

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

Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.

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

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

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

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

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