< Job 12 >

1 And 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: yea, who knoweth not 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] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [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 fowls of the air, 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 unto thee.
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath 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 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth 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 withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth 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 leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again].
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth 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 maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken

< Job 12 >