Him: i.e. Jehovah (Job 12:9).
With him is wisdom - Margin, correctly, “God.” However much wisdom there may seem to be with aged men, yes the true wisdom - that which was supre...
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 t...
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. With him is wisdom and strength - But all these things come from God; he is the...
With him is wisdom and strength— With him dwell, &c. Counsel and understanding are peculiar to him. Thus Houbigant; who supposes the expres...
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. In contrast "with the ancient is wisdom" ( Job 12:12 ), Job quotes a sayin...
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 r...
With him ] viz. God. Absolute power and wisdom are inherent in God, not acquired by pains and years as man acquires such power and wisdom as he poss...
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 mu...
“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...
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 sarca...
(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...
With him [is] wisdom and strength ,.... Not with the ancient and long lived man, but with God, who has made the whole universe, and in whose hand an...
With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. Ver. 13. With him is wisdom and strength, &c. ] Wisdom, strength, counse...
With him is wisdom That is, with God. Perfect wisdom is only in him, and all wisdom in the world cometh from him, who giveth to young and old as it...
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...
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understandi...
With him, i.e. with God; the relative being put for the antecedent, which is easily and necessarily understood out of the scope of the place, and a...
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. Ironi...
Job 12:6 . The tabernacles of robbers prosper. Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to...
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 a...
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 f...
God's Government of the World
With Him is wisdom and strength, He possesses them as His personal qualities, as His essential attributes; He hath counsel and understanding, the a...
1 Corinthians 1:24 ; Colossians 2:3 ; Daniel 2:20 ; Ephesians 1:11 ; Ephesians 1:8 ; Isaiah 40:13 ; Isaiah 40:14 ; Isaiah 46:10 ; James 1:5...
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.