Job 12 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Chides His Accusers

Job 12:1Then Iyov answered,

Job 12:2"No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Job 12:5

Job 12:5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune, It is ready for them whose foot slips.

Job 12:6

Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands.

Job 12:7

Job 12:7"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Job 12:8

Job 12:8Or speak to the eretz, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

Job 12:9

Job 12:9Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of the LORD has done this,

Job 12:10

Job 12:10In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind?

Job 12:11

Job 12:11Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?

Job 12:12

Job 12:12With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.

Job Speaks of the Power of God

Job 12:13

Job 12:13"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Job 12:14

Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Job 12:15

Job 12:15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the eretz.

Job 12:16

Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 12:17

Job 12:17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

Job 12:18

Job 12:18He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.

Job 12:19

Job 12:19He leads Kohanim away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.

Job 12:20

Job 12:20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the Zakenim.

Job 12:21

Job 12:21He pours contempt on princes, And loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 12:22

Job 12:22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of death.

Job 12:23

Job 12:23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

Job 12:24

Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the eretz, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 12:25

Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 12 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Chides His Accusers

Job Speaks of the Power of God

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Job Chapter 12 — Additional Translations:

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