< Job 12 >

1 Then Job, answering, said:
And he answered Job and he said.
2 Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
Truly that you [are the] people and with you it will die wisdom.
3 And I have a heart just as you also do, and I am not inferior to you. For who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
Also [belongs] to me a heart - like you not [am] falling I more than you and with whom? [are] there not like these [things].
4 He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
A laughingstock to friend his - I am [one who] called to God and he answered him [is] a laughingstock a righteous [person] a blameless [person].
5 The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
[belongs] to Disaster contempt to [the] thought of [one] at ease a push [belongs] to [those who] are sliding of foot.
6 The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
They are at peace [the] tents - of destroyers and securiti [belong] to provokers of God to [those] whom he has brought God in hand his.
7 In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you.
And but ask please [the] animals so it may teach you and [the] bird[s] of the heavens so it may tell to you.
8 Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain.
Or complain to the earth so it may teach you and they may recount to you [the] fish of the sea.
9 Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things?
Who? not does it know among all these for [the] hand of Yahweh it has done this.
10 In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.
[he] whom [is] in Hand his [the] life of every living [thing] and [the] breath of all flesh of humankind.
11 Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?
¿ Not an ear words does it test and a palate food it tastes itself.
12 In old age is wisdom, and in length of days is prudence.
[is] with Aged [people] wisdom and [is with] length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
[are] with Him wisdom and might [belong] to him counsel and understanding.
14 If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.
There! he tears down and not it will be rebuilt he shuts on a person and not it will be opened.
15 If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.
There! he holds back the waters so they may be dry and he lets loose them and they may devastate [the] earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.
[are] with Him strength and sound wisdom [belong] to him [one who] goes astray and [one who] leads astray.
17 He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.
[he is] leading away Counselors barefoot and judges he makes look foolish.
18 He removes the belt of kings and encircles their waist with a rope.
[the] correction of Kings he loosens and he bound a loincloth on loins their.
19 He leads away priests in dishonor and displaces nobles,
[he is] leading away Priests barefoot and [people] long established he overturns.
20 altering the lips of those who speak the truth and sweeping away the teaching of the aged.
[he is] removing A lip of trusted [ones] and [the] discernment of elders he takes away.
21 He pours disdain upon the leaders, relieving those who had been oppressed.
[he is] pouring Contempt on noble [people] and [the] belt of strong people he loosens.
22 He reveals the depths of the darkness, and he brings the shadow of death into the light.
[he is] revealing Unfathomable [things] from darkness and he brought out to the light deep darkness.
23 He multiplies peoples, and destroys them, and, having been overthrown, he restores them anew.
[he is] making great the Nations and he destroyed them [he is] spreading out the nations and he led them.
24 He transforms the heart of the leaders of the people on earth, and misleads those who in vain advance upon the inviolable.
[he is] removing [the] heart of [the] leaders of [the] people of The earth and he made wander them in a wasteland not a path.
25 They will grope as in the darkness, not the light, and he will make them stagger like drunkards.
They grope darkness and not light and he made wander them like drunkard.

< Job 12 >