Job 12:24–25
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12:24He deprives the leaders of the earth60
of their understanding;61
he makes them wander
in a trackless desert waste.62
12:25They grope about in darkness63 without light;
he makes them stagger64 like drunkards.
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- 60 Heb “the heads of the people of the earth.”
- 61 Heb “heart.”
- 62 The text has בְּתֹהוּ לֹא־דָרֶךְ (bétohu lo’ darekh): “in waste—no way,” or “in a wasteland [where there is] no way,” thus, “trackless” (see the discussion of negative attributes using לֹא [lo’] in §152.u).
- 63 The word is an adverbial accusative.
- 64 The verb is the same that was in v. 24, “He makes them [the leaders still] wander” (the Hiphil of תָּעָה, ta’ah). But in this passage some commentators emend the text to a Niphal of the verb and put it in the plural, to get the reading “they reel to and fro.” But even if the verse closes the chapter and there is no further need for a word of divine causation, the Hiphil sense works well here—causing people to wander like a drunken man would be the same as making them stagger.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and makes them wander in a trackless waste.
They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;
he makes them wander in a trackless waste.
They grope in darkness with no light;
he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
They grope around in darkness without light;
he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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NLTNew Living Translation
He strips kings of understanding
and leaves them wandering in a pathless wasteland.
They grope in the darkness without a light.
He makes them stagger like drunkards.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
He strips away the insight of the heads of the earth’s people,
and he makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
They grope in the dark without light,
and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.
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KJV 1900King James Version
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.
They grope in the dark without light,
And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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