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Job 12:17

NETBible	He¹ leads² counselors away stripped³ and makes judges⁴ into fools.⁵
NIV © biblegateway Job 12:17	He leads counsellors away stripped and makes fools of judges.
NASB © biblegateway Job 12:17	"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.
NLT © biblegateway Job 12:17	He leads counselors away stripped of good judgment; he drives judges to madness.
MSG © biblegateway Job 12:17	He strips experts of their vaunted credentials, exposes judges as witless fools.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 12:17	He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 12:17	He leads counselors away stripped, and makes fools of judges.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 12:17	He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.
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KJV	He leadeth <03212> (8688) counsellors <03289> (8802) away spoiled <07758>_, and maketh the judges <08199> (8802) fools <01984> (8779)_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 12:17	"He makes counselors <03289> walk <01980> barefoot <07758> And makes <01984> fools <01984> of judges <08199> .
LXXM	diagwn <1236> V-PAPNS bouleutav <1010> N-APM aicmalwtouv <164> A-APM kritav <2923> N-APM de <1161> PRT ghv <1065> N-GSF exesthsen <1839> V-AAI-3S
NET [draft] ITL	He leads <01980> counselors <03289> away <01980> stripped <07758> and makes <01984> judges <08199> into fools <01984> .
HEBREW	llwhy <01984> Myjpsw <08199> llws <07758> Myuewy <03289> Kylwm (12:17) <01980>

NETBible

He¹ leads² counselors away stripped³ and makes judges⁴ into fools.⁵

NET Notes

¹tn The personal pronoun normally present as the subject of the participle is frequently omitted (see GKC 381 §119.s).

²tn GKC 361-62 §116.x notes that almost as a rule a participle beginning a sentence is continued with a finite verb with or without a ו (vav). Here the participle (“leads”) is followed by an imperfect (“makes fools”) after a ו (vav).

³tn The word שׁוֹלָל (sholal), from the root שָׁלַל (shalal, “to plunder; to strip”), is an adjective expressing the state (and is in the singular, as if to say, “in the state of one naked” [GKC 375 §118.o]). The word is found in military contexts (see Mic 1:8). It refers to the carrying away of people in nakedness and shame by enemies who plunder (see also Isa 8:1-4). They will go away as slaves and captives, deprived of their outer garments. Some (cf. NAB) suggest “barefoot,” based on the LXX of Mic 1:8; but the meaning of that is uncertain. G. R. Driver wanted to derive the word from an Arabic root “to be mad; to be giddy,” forming a better parallel.

⁴sn The judges, like the counselors, are nobles in the cities. God may reverse their lot, either by captivity or by shame, and they cannot resist his power.

⁵tn Some translate this “makes mad” as in Isa 44:25, but this gives the wrong connotation today; more likely God shows them to be fools.