Job 12:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:40 : 40 He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.
  • Job 12:20 : 20 Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
  • Ps 107:4 : 4 They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know. 10 Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'
  • Isa 19:1 : 1 The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
  • Dan 4:16 : 16 his heart from man's is changed, and the heart of a beast is given to him, and seven times pass over him;
  • Dan 4:33 : 33 `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'
  • Hos 7:11 : 11 And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- `to' Asshur they have gone.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 12:14-23
    10 verses
    82%

    14 Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

    15 Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

    16 With Him `are' strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

    17 Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

    18 The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.

    19 Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.

    20 Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

    21 Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

    22 Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

    23 Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

  • 25 They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

  • 40 He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

  • 23 He who is making princes become nothing, Judges of earth as emptiness hath made;

  • 1 Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned `it on' its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

  • 16 And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

  • Job 34:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.

    25 Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

  • 2 The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

  • 12 And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.

  • 17 He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

  • 11 He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.

  • 7 And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy `is' in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

  • 12 He doth gather the spirit of leaders, Fearful to the kings of earth!

  • 12 Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'

  • 28 For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

  • 24 Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who `is' he?

  • 12 And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great `is' the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

  • 10 Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

  • 4 They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

  • 34 A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

  • 12 My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

  • 12 Who `is' the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through.

  • 5 Who is removing mountains, And they have not known, Who hath overturned them in His anger.

  • 1 Rivulets of waters `is' the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

  • 10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

  • 18 Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

  • 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey, To turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, And on a people gathered out of nations, Making cattle and substance, Dwelling on a high part of the land.

  • 12 Left in the city `is' desolation, And `with' wasting is the gate smitten.

  • 9 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah: `Perish doth the heart of the king, And the heart of the princes, And astonished have been the priests, And the prophets do wonder.'

  • 16 To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

  • 11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

  • 13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

  • 6 He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

  • 24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

  • 14 With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

  • 4 Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they -- the high place of the people of the land.

  • 14 And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.

  • 2 To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • 3 The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • 4 In that day doth `one' take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.