Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
New American Standard Bible
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
King 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.
Holman Bible
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.
International Standard Version
He withdraws understanding from national leaders of the world, causing them to wander through uncharted wilderness.
A Conservative Version
He 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.
American Standard Version
He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Amplified
“He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earth
And makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.
Bible in Basic English
He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.
Darby Translation
He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.
Julia Smith Translation
Taking away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and he will cause them to wander in a waste, not a way.
King James 2000
He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.
Modern King James verseion
He takes away the heart of the chief of the people of the land, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no path.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,
NET Bible
He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.
New Heart English Bible
He 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Who taketh away the sense of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and hath caused them to wander in a pathless waste:
Webster
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.
World English Bible
He 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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
If You Want To Learn
23 Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them. 24 Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way! 25 They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.
Cross References
Psalm 107:40
He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.
Job 12:20
Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
Job 17:4
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
Psalm 107:4
They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.
Isaiah 6:9-10
And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.
Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
Daniel 4:16
his heart from man's is changed, and the heart of a beast is given to him, and seven times pass over him;
Daniel 4:33
'In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'
Hosea 7:11
And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- to Asshur they have gone.