Job 12

1 and to answer Job and to say

And Job answereth and saith: —

2 truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom

Truly — ye [are] the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

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

A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth 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

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

7 and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you

And yet, ask, I pray thee, [One of] the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

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 sheweth thee, And fishes of the sea recount to thee:

9 who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this

'Who hath not known in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath 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

Doth not the ear 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 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

Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth 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

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth 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 counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

18 discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their

The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.

19 to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert

Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

20 to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take

Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

21 to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken

Pouring contempt upon 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 bringeth 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 destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth 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 causeth 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 causeth them to wander as a drunkard.