Job 12

1 Then responded Job, and said: —

and to answer Job and to say

2 Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.

truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom

3 I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath 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 A laughing-stock to one’s neighbour, do I become, one who hath called upon GOD and he hath answered him! A laughing-stock—a righteous man without blame!

laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless

5 For ruin, there is contempt, in the thought of the man at ease, —ready, for such as are of faltering foot!

to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot

6 At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

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, in very deed, ask, I pray thee, the beasts, and they will teach thee, and the bird of the heavens, and it will tell thee;

and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you

8 Or address the earth, and it will teach thee, and the fishes of the sea, will recount it to 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, among all these, that, the hand of Yahweh, hath 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 soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the flesh of men.

which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man

11 Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?

not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him

12 In the Ancient, is wisdom, and [in] Length of Days, understanding:

in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding

13 With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.

with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding

14 Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open

15 Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform 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 effective wisdom, to Him, belong he that erreth, and he that causeth to err.

with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander

17 Who leadeth away counsellors [as] a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish

18 The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave’s waistcloth about their loins:

discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their

19 Who leadeth away priests [as] a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth:

to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert

20 Setting aside the speech of the trusty, and, the discernment of elders, He taketh away:

to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take

21 Pouring contempt upon nobles, and, the girdle of the mighty, hath He loosed:

to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken

22 Laying open deep things, out of darkness, and bringing out to light, the death-shade:

to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow

23 Who giveth greatness to nations, or destroyeth them, Who spreadeth out nations, or leadeth them into exile:

to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them

24 Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste:

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 about in the dark, having no light, and He hath made them to reel, like a drunken man.

to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken