Job 12
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered and said:
2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3 also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; yea, who knoweth not 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 as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and He answered him; the just, the innocent man is a laughing-stock,
5 to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
A contemptible brand in the thought of him that is at ease, a thing ready for them whose foot slippeth.
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 prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, in whatsoever God bringeth into their hand.
7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee;
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 shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee;
9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
Who knoweth not among all these, that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
10 which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. —
11 not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?
12 in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days? —
13 with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
14 look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
Behold, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.
17 to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.
18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.
20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
He removeth the speech of men of trust, and taketh away the sense of the elders.
21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
He poureth contempt upon princes, and looseth the belt of the strong.
22 to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23 to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; He enlargeth the nations, and leadeth them away.
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 taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
They grope in the dark without light, and He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
