Job 27:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why `is' this -- ye are altogether vain?

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove? 26 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate. 27 Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend. 28 And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie? 29 Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 And yet, ye `are' forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. 6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, 7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? 8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? 9 Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 If not -- mockeries `are' with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? 3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For ye say, `Where `is' the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?' 29 Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? 30 That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
  • Job 26:2-4 : 2 What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong! 3 What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known. 4 With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them. 2 The whole `is' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is' the good, so `is' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. 3 This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

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  • 11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

  • 12What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

  • Job 36:24-25
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    24Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

    25All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

  • 4Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?

  • Job 16:2-3
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    2I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters `are' ye all.

    3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

  • 17I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

  • 1Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.

  • 14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

  • Ezek 13:7-8
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    7A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have not spoken?

    8Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen a lie, Therefore, lo, I `am' against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.

    6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

  • 8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • 11For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider `it'!

  • 21and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,

  • 34And how do ye comfort me `with' vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

  • 11I shew you by the hand of God, That which `is' with the Mighty I hide not.

  • Job 21:28-29
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    28For ye say, `Where `is' the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'

    29Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?

  • 21Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.

  • 14Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

  • 3Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 17What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

  • 29`Lo, all of them `are' vanity, Nought `are' their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'

  • 4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

  • 28And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?

  • 27Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

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    2Sons of men! till when `is' my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

  • 4And yet, ye `are' forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,

  • 3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • 10And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, `There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, `I `am', and none else.'

  • 3What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

    9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

  • Job 32:12-13
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    12And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, `Or' answerer of his sayings among you.

    13Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

  • 1Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

  • 9Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

  • 2And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

  • 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

  • 20and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

  • 9Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

  • 18Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.

  • 2Truly -- ye `are' the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

  • 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

  • 47Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

  • 11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

  • 17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,