Job 12
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered:
2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
3 also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
4 laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
5 to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
6 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
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
8 or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
11 not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
12 in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
13 with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
14 look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
15 look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
16 with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
17 to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
22 to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
23 to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
24 to turn aside: remove heart head: leader people [the] land: country/planet and to go astray them in/on/with formlessness not way: road
He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
25 to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
