Job 12
1 Then Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “No doubt you are the people; wisdom will die with you.
truly for you(m. p.) people and with you to die wisdom
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
also to/for me heart like you not to fall: fall I from you and with who? nothing like these
4 I am something for my neighbor to laugh at— I, one who called on God and who was answered by him! I, a just and blameless man—I am now something to laugh at.
laughter to/for neighbor his to be to call: call to to/for god and to answer him laughter righteous unblemished: blameless
5 In the thought of someone who is at ease, there is contempt for misfortune; he thinks in a way that brings more misfortune to those whose foot is slipping.
to/for disaster contempt to/for thought secure blow to/for to slip foot
6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God feel secure; their own hands are their gods.
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 now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; ask the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you.
and but to ask please animal and to show you and bird [the] heaven and to tell to/for you
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; the fish of the sea will declare to you.
or to muse to/for land: soil and to show you and to recount to/for you fish [the] sea
9 Which animal among all these does not know that the hand of Yahweh has done this?
who? not to know in/on/with all these for hand: power LORD to make: do this
10 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
which in/on/with hand: power his soul: life all alive and spirit: breath all flesh man
11 Does not the ear test words just as the palate tastes its food?
not ear speech to test and palate food to perceive to/for him
12 With aged men is wisdom; in length of days is understanding.
in/on/with aged wisdom and length day: old understanding
13 With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
with him wisdom and might to/for him counsel and understanding
14 See, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again; if he imprisons someone, there can be no release.
look! to overthrow and not to build to shut upon man and not to open
15 See, if he withholds the waters, they dry up; and if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
look! to restrain in/on/with water and to wither and to send: depart them and to overturn land: country/planet
16 With him are strength and wisdom; people who are deceived and the deceiver are both in his power.
with him strength and wisdom to/for him to go astray and to wander
17 He leads counselors away barefoot in sorrow; he turns judges into fools.
to go: take to advise barefoot and to judge to be foolish
18 He takes off the chain of authority from kings; he wraps a cloth about their waists.
discipline: bonds king to open and to bind girdle in/on/with loin their
19 He leads priests away barefoot in sorrow and overthrows mighty people.
to go: take priest barefoot and strong to pervert
20 He removes the speech of those who had been trusted and takes away the understanding of the elders.
to turn aside: remove lip: words to/for be faithful and taste old: elder to take: take
21 He pours contempt upon princes and unfastens the belt of strong people.
to pour: pour contempt upon noble and belt channel to slacken
22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.
to reveal: reveal deep from darkness and to come out: produce to/for light shadow
23 He makes nations strong, and he also destroys them; He enlarges nations, and he also leads them along as prisoners.
to grow great to/for nation and to perish them to spread to/for nation and to lead them
24 He takes away understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth; he causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.
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 in the dark without light; he makes them stagger like a drunk man.
to feel darkness and not light and to go astray them like/as drunken
