Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why is this -- ye are altogether vain?
New American Standard Bible
Why then do you
King James Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Holman Bible
why do you keep up this empty talk?
International Standard Version
Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?
A Conservative Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
American Standard Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
Amplified
“Behold, all of you have seen it;
Why then do you act vainly and foolishly [cherishing worthless concepts]?
Bible in Basic English
Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Darby Translation
Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, all ye yourselves saw; and wherefore this, will ye breathe out vanity?
King James 2000
Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?
Modern King James verseion
Behold, all you have seen it yourselves; why then do you become completely vain?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,
NET Bible
If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?
New Heart English Bible
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Webster
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
World English Bible
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
11 I shew you by the hand of God, That which is with the Mighty I hide not. 12 Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why is this -- ye are altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.
Names
Cross References
Job 6:25-29
How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
Job 13:4-9
And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
Job 16:3
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 17:2
If not -- mockeries are with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
Job 19:2-3
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
Job 21:3
Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
Job 21:28-30
For ye say, 'Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
Job 26:2-4
What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong!
Ecclesiastes 8:14
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.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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.