Job 12
1 Then Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?
also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
4 I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for calamity. It is ready for those whose foot slips.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings abundantly.
to prosper tent to/for to ruin and security to/for to tremble God to/for which to come (in): bring god in/on/with hand his
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee.
and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the fishes of the sea shall declare to thee.
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Who does not know in all these, that the hand of Jehovah has wrought this,
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
11 Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He removes the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 He pours contempt upon rulers, and weakens the strength of the strong.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
to turn aside: remove heart head: leader people [the] land: country/planet and to go astray them in/on/with formlessness not way: road
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
