Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, all ye yourselves saw; and wherefore this, will ye breathe out vanity?
New American Standard Bible
Why then do you
King James Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Holman Bible
why do you keep up this empty talk?
International Standard Version
Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?
A Conservative Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?
American Standard Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
Amplified
“Behold, all of you have seen it;
Why then do you act vainly and foolishly [cherishing worthless concepts]?
Bible in Basic English
Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Darby Translation
Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
King James 2000
Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?
Modern King James verseion
Behold, all you have seen it yourselves; why then do you become completely vain?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, ye stand in your own conceit, as though ye knew all things. Wherefore then do ye go about with such vain words,
NET Bible
If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?
New Heart English Bible
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Webster
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
World English Bible
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why is this -- ye are altogether vain?
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
11 I will teach you by the hand of God: what is with the Almighty I will not hide. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves saw; and wherefore this, will ye breathe out vanity? 13 This the portion of an unjust man with God, and the inheritance of the terrible they shall take from the Almighty.
Names
Cross References
Job 6:25-29
How forcible were words of uprightness! and what will reproving from you prove?
Job 13:4-9
And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.
Job 16:3
Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?
Job 17:2
If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?
Job 19:2-3
How long will ye, grieve my soul, and crush me with words?
Job 21:3
Suffer me and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock
Job 21:28-30
For ye will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust?
Job 26:2-4
How didst thou help to him of no strength? didst thou save the arm of no strength?
Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is vanity which was done upon the earth; that there is the just which it comes upon them according to the work of the unjust: and there is the unjust, it comes upon them according to the work of the just. I said, Also this is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.