Jó 12— comparação

1Então Jó respondeu:

2“Sem dúvida, vocês são o povo,

3Mas eu tenho entendimento assim como vocês;

4Sou como alguém que é motivo de riso para o seu próximo,

5No pensamento daquele que vive tranquilo há desprezo pela desgraça.

6As tendas dos ladrões prosperam.

7“Mas perguntem agora aos animais, e eles os ensinarão;

8Ou falem com a terra, e ela os ensinará.

9Quem não sabe que, em tudo isso,

10em cuja mão está a vida de todo ser vivente,

11O ouvido não prova as palavras,

12Com os idosos está a sabedoria,

13“Com Deus está a sabedoria e o poder.

14Eis que ele derruba, e não se pode reconstruir.

15Eis que ele retém as águas, e elas secam.

16Com ele está a força e a sabedoria.

17Ele leva os conselheiros despojados.

18Ele desfaz os laços dos reis,

19Ele leva os sacerdotes despojados,

20Ele tira a fala dos que são confiáveis,

21Ele derrama desprezo sobre os príncipes,

22Ele descobre as coisas profundas das trevas,

23Ele multiplica as nações, e as destrói.

24Ele tira o entendimento dos líderes do povo da terra,

25Eles tateiam nas trevas sem luz.

1Then Job answered,

2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

7“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.

9Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

11Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

13“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

19He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.