Job 12
1 And Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 So then you [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?
truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
3 [But] I also have a heart as well as you.
also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
4 For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be [held] guiltless,
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition [made] of them.
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, if they may speak to you; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to you.
and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
8 Tell the earth, if it may speak to you: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to you.
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
11 For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against man, who shall open?
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
15 If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
16 With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows 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 dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them [away].
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, [saying],
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 Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
