Job 12:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.

New Living Translation
He leads counselors away, stripped of good judgment; wise judges become fools.

English Standard Version
He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.

Berean Study Bible
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

New American Standard Bible
“He makes advisers walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

NASB 1995
"He makes counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

NASB 1977
“He makes counselors walk barefoot, And makes fools of judges.

Amplified Bible
“He makes [great and scheming] counselors walk barefoot And makes fools of judges.

Christian Standard Bible
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes judges go mad.

Contemporary English Version
God shames counselors, turns judges into fools,

Good News Translation
He takes away the wisdom of rulers and makes leaders act like fools.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools out of judges.

International Standard Version
He leads counselors away naked; he turns judges into fools.

NET Bible
He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

New King James Version
He leads counselors away plundered, And makes fools of the judges.

King James 2000 Bible
He leads counselors away plundered, and makes the judges fools.

New Heart English Bible
He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

World English Bible
He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

American King James Version
He leads counsellors away spoiled, and makes the judges fools.

American Standard Version
He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

A Faithful Version
He leads counselors away stripped, and makes the judges fools.

Darby Bible Translation
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools;

English Revised Version
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and judges maketh he fools.

Webster's Bible Translation
He leadeth counselors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
He causeth the counsellers to goe as spoyled, and maketh the iudges fooles.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He carieth awaye the wyse men, as it were a spoyle, and bryngeth the iudges out of their wyttes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, "" Indeed, He makes fools of judges.

Young's Literal Translation
Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.

Smith's Literal Translation
Leading away counselors stripped off and he will make foolish the judges.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He bringeth counsellors to a foolish end, and judges to insensibility.

Catholic Public Domain Version
He leads advisors to a foolish end and judges to stupidity.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He governs Kings with awe and Judges he drives mad

Lamsa Bible
He leads kings amazingly, and makes judges fools.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
He leadeth counsellors away stripped, And judges maketh He fools.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.
















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