Job 12
1 and to answer Job and to say
And Job answers and says:
2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
“Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.
3 also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like 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 laughter to his friend: He calls to God, and He answers him, A laughter [is] the perfect righteous one.
5 to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
A torch—despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
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 spoilers are at peace, And those provoking God have confidence, Into whose hand God has brought.
7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
And yet, now ask [one of] the beasts, And it shows you, And a bird of the heavens, And it declares to you.
8 or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
Or talk to the earth, and it shows you, And fishes of the sea recount to you:
9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
Who has not known in all these, That the hand of YHWH has done this?
10 which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
In whose hand [is] the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.
11 not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
Does the ear not try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
12 in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
With the very aged [is] wisdom, And [with] length of days [is] understanding.
13 with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
With Him [are] wisdom and might, To Him [are] counsel and understanding.
14 look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, He shuts against a man, And it is not opened.
15 look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
Behold, He keeps in the waters, and they are dried up, And He sends them forth, And they overturn the land.
16 with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
With Him [are] strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.
17 to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, Indeed, He makes fools of judges.
18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
He has opened the bands of kings, And He binds a girdle on their loins.
19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
Causing ministers to go away [as] a spoil And strong ones He overthrows.
20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
Turning aside the lip of the steadfast, And the reason of the aged He takes away.
21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
Pouring contempt on princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.
22 to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
Removing deep things out of darkness, And He brings out to light death-shade.
23 to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
Magnifying the nations, and He destroys them, Spreading out the nations, and He quiets 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
Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And He causes them to wander In vacancy—no way!
25 to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
They feel darkness, and not light, He causes them to wander as a drunkard.”
