InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42
Job 12 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V25
OET-LV He_is_removing the_heart_of the_leaders_of the_people_of the_earth/land and_he_made_them_wander in_a_wasteland not a_path.
OET (OET-RV) He removes the heart from the leaders of the people of the land,
⇔ and makes them wander in wasteland where there’s no paths.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לֵ֭ב
reason_of
Here, the heart represents the thoughts. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [understanding]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַ֝יַּתְעֵ֗ם בְּתֹ֣הוּ לֹא־דָֽרֶךְ
(Some words not found in UHB: strips reason_of chiefs_of people the=earth/land and,he,made_them_wander in,a_wasteland not track )
Job is speaking as if God literally makes leaders wander in a wasteland. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and he makes them confused so that they do not know the right thing to do]
OET-LV He_is_removing the_heart_of the_leaders_of the_people_of the_earth/land and_he_made_them_wander in_a_wasteland not a_path.
OET (OET-RV) He removes the heart from the leaders of the people of the land,
⇔ and makes them wander in wasteland where there’s no paths.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.