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Job 12 Updated Brenton English Septuagint

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LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 And Job answered and said,
1 Then Job answered,
2 So then ye [alone] are men, And wisdom shall die with you?
2 “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
3 [But] I also have a heart as well as you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
4 For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.
4 I 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.
5 For 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 anyone trust that, being evil, he shall be [held] guiltless,
5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.
6 Even as many as provoke the Lord, As if there were indeed to be no inquisition [made] of them.
6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
7 But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; And the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.
7 “But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
8 Tell the earth, if it may speak to thee: And the fish of the sea shall explain to thee.
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who then has not known in all these things, That the hand of the Lord has made them?
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
10 Whereas the life of all living things is in his hand, And the breath of every man.
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 For the ear tries words, And the palate tastes meats.
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 In length of time is wisdom, And in long life knowledge.
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 With him are wisdom and power, With him counsel and understanding.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 If he should cast down, who will build up? If he should shut up against men, who shall open?
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
15 If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: And if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him are strength and power: He has knowledge and understanding.
16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leads counselors away captive, And maddens the judges of the earth.
17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
18 He seats kings upon thrones, And girds their loins with a girdle.
18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
19 He sends away priests into captivity, And overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.
19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
20 He changes the lips of the trustworthy, And he knows the understanding of the elders.
20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
21 He pours dishonor upon princes, And heals the lowly.
21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.
22 Revealing deep things out of darkness: And he has brought into light the shadow of death.
22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
23 Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: Overthrowing the nations, and leading them [away].
23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
24 Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: And he causes them to wander in a way they have not known, [saying],
24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 Let them grope [in] darkness, and [let there be] no light, And let them wander as a drunken man.
25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Cross references (23)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Isaiah 5:21; Job 17:4; Job 17:10; Job 8:8–10; Job 11:12
  2. 3 Job 13:2–5; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23; Proverbs 26:4; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 6:6–7
  3. 4 Job 30:1; Job 21:3; Psalm 91:15; Job 17:6; Psalm 22:7–8
  4. 5 Psalm 17:5; Proverbs 13:9; Matthew 25:8; Amos 6:1–6; Psalm 123:3–4
  5. 6 Job 9:24; Psalm 73:11–12; Psalm 37:35; Psalm 17:14; Job 21:7–15
  6. 7 Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7; Proverbs 6:6; Job 21:29–30
  7. 9 Isaiah 41:20; Jeremiah 27:5–6; Romans 11:36; Acts 19:35; 1 Samuel 2:7
  8. 10 Acts 17:28; Job 33:4; Acts 17:25; Numbers 16:22; Job 27:3
  9. 11 Job 34:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 6:30; 1 Peter 2:3; Philippians 1:10
  10. 12 Job 32:7; Job 15:10; Job 8:8
  11. 13 Job 36:5; Job 9:4; Proverbs 2:6–7; James 1:5; Job 28:20–28
  12. 14 Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7; Malachi 1:4; Job 11:10; Job 37:7
  13. 15 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:17; James 5:17–18; Genesis 6:13
  14. 16 Job 13:9; Job 12:13; Ezekiel 14:9; 1 Kings 22:22–23; Matthew 6:13
  15. 17 Isaiah 29:14; 1 Corinthians 1:19–20; 2 Samuel 17:23; 2 Samuel 17:14; Job 9:24
  16. 18 Daniel 2:21; Psalm 116:16; Jeremiah 52:31–34; 2 Chronicles 33:11–14; Revelation 19:16
  17. 19 Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 37:36–38; Job 35:9; Joshua 10:24; Revelation 19:19–21
  18. 20 Job 32:9; Job 17:4; Job 12:24; Proverbs 10:21; Job 39:17
  19. 21 Psalm 107:40; 1 Kings 21:23–24; Ephesians 6:10; Acts 12:23; Exodus 16:24
  20. 22 Daniel 2:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Job 3:5; Luke 1:79
  21. 23 Isaiah 9:3; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 60:22; Psalm 107:38; Jeremiah 33:22
  22. 24 Psalm 107:40; Job 12:20; Hosea 7:11; Isaiah 19:1; Daniel 4:16
  23. 25 Job 5:14; Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 19:14; Deuteronomy 28:29

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 12:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XI)

    Speak to the earth, if perchance it may teach thee: and though thou inquire of all things which are upon the earth, they shall not be able to tell thee.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)