Job 12
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then answered Job, and said,
2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
Truly ye are indeed the [right kind of] people, and with you wisdom must die out.
3 also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth 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 laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: [yea, ] a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.
5 to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
To the unfortunate there is given contempt— according to the thoughts of him that is at ease— prepared [also] for those 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
Prosperous are the tents of robbers, and security is given to those that provoke God. to him who carrieth his god in his hand.
7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
Yet, do only ask of the beasts, and they will instruct thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they will tell it 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 she will instruct thee; and the fishes of the sea will inform thee
9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
Who knoweth not through 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
[He] in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the bodies of men?
11 not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food for itself?
12 in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
So It with the ancients wisdom, and with [those of] length of days understanding,
13 with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
That with him are wisdom and strength, his are counsel and understanding.
14 look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
Behold, he pulleth down, and there can be no rebuilding: he locketh [the prison] upon 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 restraineth the waters, and they dry up; or he suffereth them to flow, and they overturn the earth.
16 with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver.
17 to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
He leadeth counsellors away bereft of sense, and maketh the judges fools.
18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth a girdle around their loins.
19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
He leadeth priests away bereft of sense, and the powerful he causeth to walk on crooked paths.
20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
He removeth the speech from trusty speakers, and taketh away the intelligence of the aged.
21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
He poureth contempt upon princes, and the belt of the mighty be looseneth.
22 to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
He layeth open deep things from the midst of darkness, and bringeth out unto 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 permitteth the nations to become great, and destroyeth them: he spreadeth out 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 sense of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander astray in a wilderness when 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 causeth them to wander astray like a drunken man.
