Job Presents His Case
Job 12:20
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
- KJV
- He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.speech…: Heb. lip of the faithful
- WEB
- He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
- ASV
- He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
- LSV
- Turning aside the lip of the steadfast, || And the reason of the aged He takes away.
- YLT
- Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
- DBY
- He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;
- DRC
- He changeth the speech of the true speakers, and taketh away the doctrine of the aged.
- GNV
- He taketh away the speach from the faithfull counsellers, and taketh away the iudgement of the ancient.
- JPS
- He removeth the speech of men of trust, and taketh away the sense of the elders.
- LXXE
- He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מֵסִ֣יר שָׂ֭פָה לְנֶאֱמָנִ֑ים וְטַ֖עַם זְקֵנִ֣ים יִקָּֽח׃
- LXX-Br
- Διαλλάσσων χείλη πιστῶν, σύνεσιν δὲ πρεσβυτέρων ἔγνω.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 32:9It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
- Job 12:24He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
- Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
- Isaiah 3:1–3For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and…
- Proverbs 12:19Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
- Job 39:17For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
- Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
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