Job 27:12

12 He aquí que todos vosotros lo habéis visto: ¿Por qué pues os desvanecéis con fantasía?

Job 27:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]
As they were men of observation, at least made great pretensions to it, as well as of age and experience, they must have seen and observed somewhat at least of the above things; they must have seen the wicked, as David afterwards did, spreading himself like a green bay tree, and the hypocrites in easy and flourishing circumstances, and good men labouring under great afflictions and pressures, and Job himself was now an instance of that before their eyes:

why then are ye thus altogether vain?
or "become vain in vanity" ^F11; so exceeding vain, so excessively trifling, as to speak and act against the dictates of their own conscience, against their own sense, and what they saw with their own eyes, and advance notions so contrary thereunto; as to affirm that evil men are always punished of God in this life, and good men are succeeded and prospered by him; and so from Job's afflictions drew so vain and empty a conclusion, that he must be a wicked man and an hypocrite.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (wlbht lbh) "vanitate vanescitis", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Michaelis, Schultens; "[vel] evanescitis", Montanus, Bolducius, Beza, Mercerus, Drusius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Job 27:12 In-Context

10 ¿Deleitaráse en el Omnipotente? ¿Invocará á Dios en todo tiempo?

11 Yo os enseñaré en orden á la mano de Dios: No esconderé lo que hay para con el Omnipotente.

12 He aquí que todos vosotros lo habéis visto: ¿Por qué pues os desvanecéis con fantasía?

13 Esta es para con Dios la suerte del hombre impío, Y la herencia que los violentos han de recibir del Omnipotente.

14 Si sus hijos fueren multiplicados, serán para el cuchillo; Y sus pequeños no se hartarán de pan;