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Job 12:19
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He leads priests away barefootand overthrows established leaders.
He leads Kohanim away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.
He leads priests away naked and destroys the powerful.
He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.
"He makes priests walk barefoot, And He overturns men firmly seated and secure.
"He makes priests walk barefoot, And overthrows the secure ones.
He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
He leadeth away the princes as a pray, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
He makes priests walk barefootAnd subverts the enduring ones.
He leads priests away barefoot and overthrows the established.
God removes priests and others who have great power—
He leads cohanim away captive and overthrows those long in power.
He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty;
He strips priests of their power and removes those who feel so secure in their position.
He leads priests with reverence, and overthrows the mighty.
he humbles priests and men of power.
He leads priests away stripped, and he overthrows the members of ancient families.
making priests walk away stripped; and He overthrows the mighty;
he ledeth awaye the prestes into captiuyte, and turneth the mightie vp syde downe.
He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.
He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;
He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.
He leadeth Princes away spoiled, and ouerthroweth the mightie.
He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe.
He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.
He leadeth priests away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
He ledith her prestis with out glorie, and he disseyueth the principal men, `ethir counselours;
He leads priests away stripped, And overthrows the mighty.
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
He leads princes [fn] away plundered,And overthrows the mighty.
He leads priests away, stripped of status; he overthrows those with long years in power.
He makes religious leaders walk without pride, and takes the power away from those who think they are safe.
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Who leadeth away priests as a spoil, and, men firmly seated, He overturneth:
He leadeth away priests without glory, and overthroweth nobles.
He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
Causing ministers to go away a spoil And strong ones He overthroweth.
"He makes priests walk barefoot And overthrows the secure ones.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Joshua 10:24, Joshua 10:42, 1 Samuel 17:45, 1 Samuel 17:46, Isaiah 37:36-38, Isaiah 45:1, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:19-21
Reciprocal: Judges 4:17 - fled Job 34:19 - princes Daniel 2:47 - a Lord 1 Corinthians 2:6 - of the
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He leadeth princes away spoiled,.... Of their principalities and dominions, of their wealth and riches, and of their honour and glory; or "priests" u, as some choose to render the word, against whom God has indignation for their sins, and leads them into captivity with others; so the Septuagint version, "he leads the priests captives"; for no office, ever so sacred, can protect wicked men, see Lamentations 2:6; and from these sometimes the law perishes, and they are spoiled of their wisdom and knowledge, and made unfit to instruct the people, and so of their credit and reputation among them. Sephorno interprets it of the priests spoiled of their prophesying, they prophesying false things to kings:
and overthroweth the mighty; the mighty angels from heaven when they sinned, and mighty men on earth, kings and princes, whom he puts down from their seats of majesty and grandeur. Sephorno interprets this of kings, whose ways are perverted, by being led by false prophets, as Ahab was. Some w understand this of ecclesiastical men, mighty in word and doctrine, well grounded in theology, yet their wisdom being taken away from them, they turn aside into wicked paths, practices, and principles, and fall from their steadfastness in truth and holiness.
u כהנים "sacerdotes", V. L. Montanus, Tigurine version, Bolducius, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens. w Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He leadeth princes away spoiled - That is, plundered. The word here rendered “princes” כהנים kôhênı̂ym means properly priests, and it is usually so rendered in the Scriptures. The ancient Hebrew interpreters suppose that the word sometimes also means prince. The Chaldee paraphrasist has not unfrequently so rendered it, using the word רבא to express it; Genesis 41:45; Psalms 110:4. In this place, the Vulgate renders it, “sacerdotes;” and the Septuagint, ἱερεῖς hiereis, “priests.” So Luther renders it, “Priester.” So Castellio. It can be applied to princes or statesmen only because priests were frequently engaged in performing the functions of civil officers, and were in fact to a certain extent officers of the government. But it seems to me that it is to be taken in its usual signification, and that it means that even the ministers of religion were at the control of God, and were subject to the same reverses as other people of distinction and power.
And overthroweth - The word used here (סלף sâlaph) has the notion of slipping, or gliding. So in Arabic, the word means to slip by, and to besmear; see Proverbs 13:6 : “Wickedness overthroweth תסלף tesâlaph, causes to slip) the sinner;” compare Proverbs 21:12; Proverbs 22:12. Here it means to overthrow, to prostrate. The most mighty chieftains cannot stand firm before him, but they glide away and fall.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:19. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. — What multitudes of proofs of this does the history of the world present! Even the late disastrous war with the French republic and empire, which began in 1793, and continued without intermission till 1814, was afterwards renewed, and had a catastrophe that went nearly to ruin Europe. How many princes, or rather priests, כהנים cohanim, have been spoiled of their power, influence, and authority; and how many mighty men - captains, generals, admirals, c., have been overthrown! But supposing that the writer of the Book of Job lived, as some think, after the captivity, how many priests were led away spoiled, both from Israel and Judah and how many kings and mighty men were overthrown in the disastrous wars between the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Jews!
