Job 12
1 Then Job said [to his three friends],
And he answered Job and he said.
2 “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.
Truly that you [are the] people and with you it will die wisdom.
3 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.
Also [belongs] to me a heart - like you not [am] falling I more than you and with whom? [are] there not like these [things].
4 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.
A laughingstock to friend his - I am [one who] called to God and he answered him [is] a laughingstock a righteous [person] a blameless [person].
5 Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
[belongs] to Disaster contempt to [the] thought of [one] at ease a push [belongs] to [those who] are sliding of foot.
6 Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
They are at peace [the] tents - of destroyers and securiti [belong] to provokers of God to [those] whom he has brought God in hand his.
7 “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.
And but ask please [the] animals so it may teach you and [the] bird[s] of the heavens so it may tell to you.
8 [If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
Or complain to the earth so it may teach you and they may recount to you [the] fish of the sea.
9 All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
Who? not does it know among all these for [the] hand of Yahweh it has done this.
10 He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
[he] whom [is] in Hand his [the] life of every living [thing] and [the] breath of all flesh of humankind.
11 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].
¿ Not an ear words does it test and a palate food it tastes itself.
12 Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
[is] with Aged [people] wisdom and [is with] length of days understanding.
13 but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
[are] with Him wisdom and might [belong] to him counsel and understanding.
14 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].
There! he tears down and not it will be rebuilt he shuts on a person and not it will be opened.
15 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.
There! he holds back the waters so they may be dry and he lets loose them and they may devastate [the] earth.
16 He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
[are] with Him strength and sound wisdom [belong] to him [one who] goes astray and [one who] leads astray.
17 He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
[he is] leading away Counselors barefoot and judges he makes look foolish.
18 He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
[the] correction of Kings he loosens and he bound a loincloth on loins their.
19 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.
[he is] leading away Priests barefoot and [people] long established he overturns.
20 He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
[he is] removing A lip of trusted [ones] and [the] discernment of elders he takes away.
21 He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
[he is] pouring Contempt on noble [people] and [the] belt of strong people he loosens.
22 He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
[he is] revealing Unfathomable [things] from darkness and he brought out to the light deep darkness.
23 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.
[he is] making great the Nations and he destroyed them [he is] spreading out the nations and he led them.
24 He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
[he is] removing [the] heart of [the] leaders of [the] people of The earth and he made wander them in a wasteland not a path.
25 They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
They grope darkness and not light and he made wander them like drunkard.
