Job 12
1 And Job answers and says:
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.
truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
3 I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
4 I am a laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 The tents of spoilers are at peace, And those provoking God have confidence, Into whose hand God has brought.
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 And yet, now ask [one of] the beasts, And it shows you, And a bird of the heavens, And it declares to you.
and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
8 Or talk to the earth, and it shows you, And fishes of the sea recount to you:
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Who has not known in all these, That the hand of YHWH has done this?
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
11 Does the ear not try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days [is] understanding.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 With Him [are] wisdom and might, To Him [are] counsel and understanding.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, He shuts against a man, And it is not opened.
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
15 Behold, He keeps in the waters, and they are dried up, And He sends them forth, And they overturn the land.
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 wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, Indeed, He makes fools of judges.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He has opened the bands of kings, And He binds a girdle on their loins.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 Causing ministers to go away [as] a spoil And strong ones He overthrows.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 Turning aside the lip of the steadfast, And the reason of the aged He takes away.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 Pouring contempt on princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 Removing deep things out of darkness, And He brings out to light death-shade.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 Magnifying the nations, and He destroys them, Spreading out the nations, and He quiets them.
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And He causes them to wander In vacancy—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 feel darkness, and not light, He causes them to wander as a drunkard.”
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
