Job 12 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 12:1

Job 12:1And Job answered and said,

Job 12:2

Job 12:2So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

Job 12:3

Job 12:3 But I also have a heart as well as you.

Job 12:4

Job 12:4For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

Job 12:5

Job 12:5For it had been ordained that he should fall under others at the appointed time, and that his houses should be spoiled by transgressors: let not however any one trust that, being evil, he shall be held guiltless,

Job 12:6

Job 12:6even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.

Job 12:7

Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; and the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.

Job 12:8

Job 12:8Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: and the fishes of the sea shall explain to thee.

Job 12:9

Job 12:9Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?

Job 12:10

Job 12:10Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, and the breath of every man.

Job 12:11

Job 12:11For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.

Job 12:12

Job 12:12In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.

Job 12:13

Job 12:13With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

Job 12:14

Job 12:14If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against men, who shall open?

Job 12:15

Job 12:15If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.

Job 12:16

Job 12:16With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.

Job 12:17

Job 12:17He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

Job 12:18

Job 12:18He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.

Job 12:19

Job 12:19He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.

Job 12:20

Job 12:20He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.

Job 12:21

Job 12:21He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.

Job 12:22

Job 12:22Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

Job 12:23

Job 12:23Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them away.

Job 12:24

Job 12:24Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way they have not known, saying,

Job 12:25

Job 12:25Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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