< Job 12 >

1 Job replied,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “You really think you're special people, don't you? Obviously when you die, wisdom will die with you!
truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
3 But I too have insights, and you're no better than me. Doesn't everyone know the things you've said?
also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
4 But my friends laugh at me because I called on God and he answered me: the innocent man who does right has become an object of derision.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 People who are comfortable have contempt for those who are in trouble, ready to push over those who are already slipping.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 Robbers live in peace, and those who make God angry live in safety, trusting their own strength as their ‘god.’
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 if you ask the animals they will teach you, the birds in the sky will tell you;
and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
8 ask the earth and it will teach you, and the fishes in the sea will tell you.
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Which of all these doesn't know that the Lord has done this?
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 He gives life to every living thing, life to all humankind.
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
11 The ear distinguishes words just like the palate distinguishes foods.
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 Wisdom to distinguish belongs to the old, and the ability to rightly discriminate belongs to those with long experience.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 God has wisdom and power, counsel and understanding belong to him.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 If he tears something down, nobody can rebuild it. If he imprisons someone, nobody can free them.
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
15 If God holds back the waters, everything dries up; if he releases the waters, the earth floods.
look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
16 He is mighty and victorious; both deceivers and those deceived are subject to him.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 He leads counselors away stripped of their wisdom, he makes judges into fools.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He removes the chains of office from kings and makes them wear loincloths.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 He leads priests away stripped of their religious garments, he overthrows the powerful.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He takes away the advice of trusted advisors, he removes the discernment of the elders.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 He pours scorn upon princes and takes away power from the strong.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 He reveals what is hidden in darkness, and brings into the light the shadow of death.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 He makes nations great and he destroys them; he expands nations and ruins them.
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 He removes the understanding of rulers and makes them wander in the wilderness.
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 around in the dark without a light. He makes them stagger like drunk people.
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken

< Job 12 >