| Job 12:17 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools out of judges.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. |
| ASV: | He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools. |
| BBE: | He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish; |
| DBY: | He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools; |
| ERV: | He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools. |
| JPS: | He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools. |
| WBS: | He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. |
| WEB: | He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools. |
| YLT: | Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish. |
| Job 12:17 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 3:14 With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Job 9:24 "The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it? (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 12:17 Spoiled - The wise counsellors or statesmen, by whom the affairs of kings and kingdoms are ordered, he leadeth away as captives in triumph, being spoiled either of that wisdom which they had, or seemed to have; or of that power and dignity which they had enjoyed. Fools - By discovering their folly, and by infatuating their minds, and turning their own counsels to their ruin. |
| MHC: | 12:12-25 This is a noble discourse of Job concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of His own will, which none can resist. It were well if wise and good men, who differ about lesser things, would see how it is for their honour and comfort, and the good of others, to dwell most upon the great things in which they agree. Here are no complaints, or reflections. He gives many instances of God's powerful management of the children of men, overruling all their counsels, and overcoming all their oppositions. Having all strength and wisdom, God knows how to make use, even of those who are foolish and bad; otherwise there is so little wisdom and so little honesty in the world, that all had been in confusion and ruin long ago. These important truths were suited to convince the disputants that they were out of their depth in attempting to assign the Lord's reasons for afflicting Job; his ways are unsearchable, and his judgments past finding out. Let us remark what beautiful illustrations there are in the word of God, confirming his sovereignty, and wisdom in that sovereignty: but the highest and infinitely the most important is, that the Lord Jesus was crucified by the malice of the Jews; and who but the Lord could have known that this one event was the salvation of the world? |
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