SEV Biblia, Chapter 21:12
Al son de tamboril y cítara saltan, y se regocijan al son del órgano.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 21:12
Verse 12. They take the timbrel and harp ] way yisu, they rise up or lift themselves up, probably alluding to the rural exercise of dancing. Pt toph, which we translate timbrel, means a sort of drum, such as the tom-tom of the Asiatics. rwnk kinnor may mean something of the harp kind. bgw[ ugab, organ, means nothing like the instrument now called the organ, though thus translated both by the Septuagint and Vulgate; it probably means the syrinx, composed of several unequal pipes, close at the bottom, which when blown into at the top, gives a very shrill and lively sound. To these instruments the youth are represented as dancing joyfully. Mr. Good translates: "They trip merrily to the sound of the pipe." And illustrates his translation with the following verse:- "Now pursuing, now retreating, Now in circling troops they meet; To brisk notes in cadence beating, Glance their many twinkling feet." The original is intended to convey the true notion of the gambols of the rustic nymphs and swains on festival occasions, and let it be observed that this is spoken of the children of those who say unto God, "Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have if we pray unto him ?" Job xxi. 14, 15. Is it any wonder that the children of such parents should be living to the flesh, and serving the lusts of the flesh? for neither they nor their parents know God, nor pray unto him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-16 - Job says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notoriou sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day of God' patience; and, in some way or other, he makes use of the prosperity of the wicked to serve his own counsels, while it ripens them for ruin but the chief reason is, because he will make it appear there is another world. These prospering sinners make light of God and religion as if because they have so much of this world, they had no need to loo after another. But religion is not a vain thing. If it be so to us, we may thank ourselves for resting on the outside of it. Job shows their folly.
Original Hebrew
ישׂאו 5375 כתף 8596 וכנור 3658 וישׂמחו 8055 לקול 6963 עוגב׃ 5748
