Job 12:24 Parallel Translations
NASB: "He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people And makes them wander in a pathless waste. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He takes away the common sense of a country's leaders and makes them stumble about in a pathless wilderness.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
ASV: He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
BBE: He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
DBY: He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.
ERV: He taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
JPS: He taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the land, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
WBS: He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
WEB: 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.
YLT: Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
Job 12:24 Cross References
XREF:Job 12:20 "He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
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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