Job 12
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job said [to his three friends],
2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
“You (talk as though/You think) [SAR] that you are the people [whom everyone should listen to], and that when you die, there will be no more wise people.
3 also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
But I have as much good sense as you do; I am (not less wise than/certainly as wise as [LIT]) you. Certainly everyone knows [RHQ] all that you have said.
4 laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
My friends all laugh at me now. Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he answered/helped me. I am righteous, a very godly man [DOU], but everyone laughs at me.
5 to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
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
Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
“But ask the wild animals [what they know about God], and [if they could speak] they would teach you. [If you could] ask the birds, they would tell you.
8 or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
[If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
10 which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
11 not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
And when we [SYN] hear what other people [like you] say, we [RHQ] think carefully about what they say [to determine what is good and what is bad], like we [SYN] taste food [to determine what is good and what is bad].
12 in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
13 with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
14 look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
If he tears [something] down, no one can rebuild it; if he puts someone in prison, no one can open [the prison doors to allow that person to escape].
15 look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up. When he causes a lot of rain to fall, [the result is that] there are floods.
16 with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
17 to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
He takes from priests the sacred clothes that they wear, [with the result that they no longer can do their work], and takes power from those who rule others.
20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
22 to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
23 to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
He causes some nations to become very great, and [later] he destroys them; he causes the territory of some nations to become much larger, and [later] he causes them to be defeated and their people to be scattered.
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 causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
25 to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
