Job 12:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. ”

• Job 12:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He withholdeth the waters - From the clouds and springs. He has control over the rains and the fountains; and when these are withheld, rivers and lakes become dry. The Syriac renders this, - “if...

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• Job 12:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wis...

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• Job 12:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. He withholdeth the waters - This is, I think, an allusion to the third day's work of the cre...

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• Job 12:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He withholdeth the waters— This seems to refer to the universal deluge; as the latter part of the next verse probably alludes to the fall.

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• Job 12:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also he sendeth them out, and th...

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• Job 12:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (Job 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and...

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• Job 12:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 12:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “God's Paths in Deep Waters” Job 12:1-25 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains...

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• Job 12:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guil...

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• Job 12:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (11) Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (12) В¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (13) With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and under...

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• Job 12:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up ,.... Or "lays a restraint in" or "on the waters" s; either in the ocean, as he did at the creation, when he gathered the waters that were upon the...

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• Job 12:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. Ver. 15. Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up ] He not only, when he please...

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• Job 12:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He withholdeth the waters Which are reserved in the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth; and they dry up Namely, the waters upon the earth, springs, brooks, and rivers dry up, as after...

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• Job 12:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied tha...

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• Job 12:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.   13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.   14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot b...

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• Job 12:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He withholdeth the waters; which are reserved in the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth. They dry up, i.e. the waters upon the earth, ponds, and springs, and brooks, and rivers.

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• Job 12:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech ( Job 12:2-3 ). His defence is:— 1. Ironical ( Job 12:2 ). “No doubt but ye are the people...

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• Job 12:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 12:6 . The tabernacles of robbers prosper. Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the...

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• Job 12:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Behold, He breaketh down. Job’s maxims Perhaps Job uses this lofty language concerning God for two reasons. 1. To show that he could speak as grandly of the Eternal as his friends had spoken...

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• Job 12:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters ( Job 12:1-18 ; Job 13:1-18 ; Job 14:1-18 .). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In...

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• Job 12:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Government of the World

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• Job 12:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 17:1 ; 1 Kings 8:35 ; 1 Kings 8:36 ; Amos 5:8 ; Genesis 6:13 ; Genesis 6:17 ; Genesis 7:11 ; Genesis 7:23 ; Genesis 8:1 ; Genesis 8:2 ; James 5:17 ; James 5:18 ; Jeremiah 14:22 ;...

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• Job 12:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The waters — Which are reserved its the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth. They — The waters upon the earth, springs, and brooks, and rivers. As at the time of the general deluge, to wh...

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