“ With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. ”
The deceived and the deceiver are his - This is designed to teach that all classes of people are under his control. All are dependent on him, and all are subject to him. He has power to keep them...
With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the (h) deceiver [are] his. (h) He shows that there is nothing done in this world without God's will and ordinance, else he would not be Almighty....
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...
wisdom . stability. See note on Proverbs 2:7 .
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. With him is strength and wisdom - עז ותושיה oz vethushiyah, strength and sufficiency. Strength or power, springing from an...
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. The deceived and the deceiver are his. "If the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceive...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
(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...
With him [is] strength and wisdom ,.... Which is repeated from Job 12:13 ; though different words are used but expressive of the same things; of the greatest strength might, and power of God, as t...
With him [is] strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver [are] his. Ver. 16. With him is strength and wisdom ] i.e. Such strength as he exerciseth most wisely, mightily, and righteously....
With him is strength , &c. He doth the things mentioned in the foregoing and following verses so powerfully , that no creature can resist him and hinder his operations; and so wisely, that none...
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...
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...
He doth the things here mentioned in the foregoing and succeeding verses, and that both powerfully, so as no creature can resist and hinder him, and wisely, so as none can prevent and overreach him....
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...
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...
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...
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...
God's Government of the World
1 Kings 22:22 ; 1 Kings 22:23 ; Ezekiel 14:9 ; Job 12:13 ; Matthew 6:13
With him — The same thing he had said before, Job 12:13 , but he repeats it here to prepare the way for the following events, which are eminent instances, both of his power and wisdom. Are his — W...