Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He leads priests away stripped and overthrows officials long established. New Living Translation He leads priests away, stripped of status; he overthrows those with long years in power. English Standard Version He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty. Berean Standard Bible He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established. King James Bible He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. New King James Version He leads princes away plundered, And overthrows the mighty. New American Standard Bible “He makes priests walk barefoot, And overthrows the secure ones. NASB 1995 “He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones. NASB 1977 “He makes priests walk barefoot, And overthrows the secure ones. Legacy Standard Bible He makes priests walk barefoot And subverts the enduring ones. Amplified Bible “He makes priests walk barefoot, And He overturns men firmly seated and secure. Christian Standard Bible He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows established leaders. Holman Christian Standard Bible He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows established leaders. American Standard Version He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He governs the Priests with awe and he brings down mighty men Brenton Septuagint Translation He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth. Contemporary English Version God removes priests and others who have great power-- Douay-Rheims Bible He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles. English Revised Version He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. GOD'S WORD® Translation He leads priests away barefoot and misleads those who serve in a temple. Good News Translation he humbles priests and men of power. International Standard Version He leads away the priests naked and overthrows the ruling class. JPS Tanakh 1917 He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty. Literal Standard Version Causing ministers to go away [as] a spoil | And strong ones He overthrows. Majority Standard Bible He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established. New American Bible He sends priests away barefoot, leads the powerful astray. NET Bible He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates. New Revised Standard Version He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. New Heart English Bible He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. Webster's Bible Translation He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. World English Bible He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty. Young's Literal Translation Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Responds to Zophar…18He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists. 19He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established. 20He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.… Cross References Job 19:9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head. Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? Job 22:8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it. Job 24:22 Yet by His power, God drags away the mighty; though rising up, they have no assurance of life. Job 34:20 They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand. Job 34:24 He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets up others in their place. Job 35:9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. Treasury of Scripture He leads princes away spoiled, and overthrows the mighty. Joshua 10:24,42 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them… 1 Samuel 17:45,46 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied… Isaiah 37:36-38 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses… Jump to Previous Barefoot Causing Established Leads Makes Mighty Ministers Ones Overthroweth Overthrows Overturning Positions Priests Princes Prisoners Safe Secure Spoil Spoiled Stripped Strong WalkJump to Next Barefoot Causing Established Leads Makes Mighty Ministers Ones Overthroweth Overthrows Overturning Positions Priests Princes Prisoners Safe Secure Spoil Spoiled Stripped Strong WalkJob 12 1. Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him7. He acknowledges the doctrine of God's omnipotence (19) He leadeth princes.--Some understand priests rather than princes. The word appears to be used in both senses; here the parallelism seems to suit princes better. The latter part of this chapter seems to re-echo the sentiments of Eliphaz in Job 5:11-16; but, instead of giving them the optimist direction he had sketched, he confesses that his own position is rather one of blank despair. Eliphaz is quite sure he possesses the key to the interpretation of the ways of Providence. Job ever fears that his ignorance is so profound as to amount almost to sheer hopelessness, Job is thus the type of a man who has felt the hollowness and unreality of traditional orthodox), and is feeling his way in thick darkness, sustained, nevertheless, by an unquenchable faith that there is light, and that the light will eventually dawn. That this character is the more acceptable to the God of truth is made abundantly clear in the sequel. It is to be observed, however, that Job's breadth of view far exceeds that of Eliphaz, inasmuch as the latter generalises vaguely, while Job declares that not men, but nations, are the subjects of God's guiding providence.Verse 19. - He leadeth princes away spoiled; rather, priests (כהנים), as in the Revised Version. This is the only mention of "priests" in the Book of Job, and a priest-caste, such as that of Egypt or of Israel, can scarcely be meant. The priests are placed among the mighty, on a par with kings (ver. 18), princes (ver. 21), and "the strong" (ver. 21). This context makes us naturally think of those priest-kings whom we hear of in the olden times, such as were Melchizedek (Genesis 19:18-20) and Jethro (Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:1-27), and the Egyptian kings of the twenty-first dynasty ('History of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 2. pp. 408-415), and Ethbaal of Tyro ('History of Phoenicia,' p. 435), and Sethos (Herod., 2, 141), and others. Job's allusion is probably to persons of this exalted class, who no doubt were sometimes defeated and dragged into captivity, like other rulers and governors. And overthroweth the mighty. Schultens understands by ethanim (איחנים) "great teachers;" but the ordinary meaning of the word is "strong" or "mighty" (see Job 33:19; Micah 6:2). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He leads priestsכֹּהֲנִ֣ים (kō·hă·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3548: Priest away מוֹלִ֣יךְ (mō·w·lîḵ) Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk barefoot שׁוֹלָ֑ל (šō·w·lāl) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7758: Nude, captive and overthrows יְסַלֵּֽף׃ (yə·sal·lêp̄) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5557: To twist, pervert, overturn the established. וְאֵֽתָנִ֣ים (wə·’ê·ṯā·nîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 386: Perennial, ever-flowing, permanence Links Job 12:19 NIVJob 12:19 NLT Job 12:19 ESV Job 12:19 NASB Job 12:19 KJV Job 12:19 BibleApps.com Job 12:19 Biblia Paralela Job 12:19 Chinese Bible Job 12:19 French Bible Job 12:19 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 12:19 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows (Jb) |
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