Job 12
1 Then Job said [to his three friends],
and to answer Job and to say
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 for you(m. p.) people and with you to 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 to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
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.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
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.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip 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].
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
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 to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for 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 to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
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 ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
with him wisdom and might to/for 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].
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
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.
look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
16 He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin 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.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
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.
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
to turn aside: remove heart head: leader people [the] land: country/planet and to go astray them in/on/with formlessness not way: road
25 They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
