Job 27:12

12 He aquí que todos vosotros lo habéis visto, ¿por qué pues os desvanecéis con vanidad

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 ¿Por ventura se deleitará en el Omnipotente? ¿Invocará a Dios en todo tiempo

11 Yo os enseñaré lo que hay en la mano de Dios; no esconderé lo que hay acerca del Omnipotente

12 He aquí que todos vosotros lo habéis visto, ¿por qué pues os desvanecéis con vanidad

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 la espada; y sus descendientes no se saciarán de pan