E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 12:12
ancient = aged. Hebrew word found only here and Job 15:10 ; Job 29:8 ; and Job 32:6 . read more
Job 12:11-14 Bsb
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 12:13
Him: i.e. Jehovah (Job 12:9 ). read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 12:14
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . shutteth . . . opening. Hebrew idiom for exercising authority. Compare Revelation 3:7 . Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 12:13
GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER CONTRASTED WITH THAT OF MEN"With God is wisdom and might;He hath counsel and understanding.Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again;He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up;Again he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.With him is strength and wisdom;The deceived and the deceiver are his.He leadeth counselors away stripped,And judges maketh he fools.He looseth the bond of kings,And bindeth... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 12:11-12
Job 12:11-12. Doth not the ear try words? &c.— Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food? Job, being about to speak of the supreme and absolute dominion of God over his creatures, begins with two proverbial expressions, in which he seems to insinuate that he wished for other judges of what he had to say, who, endued with a more mature and solid understanding of spiritual things, were better able to distinguish sincere piety, and the just complaints of oppressed innocence, from... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 12:13
Job 12:13. With him is wisdom and strength— With him dwell, &c. Counsel and understanding are peculiar to him. Thus Houbigant; who supposes the expression of dwelling to be in immediate opposition to the foregoing verse, where wisdom is said to BE with old men, but here to DWELL with GOD, as in its proper and peculiar home, the fountain of all human wisdom. Job shews, in the following verses, that the affairs of the world, and the fortunes of men, are subject to such a variety of changes... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 12:11
11. As the mouth by tasting meats selects what pleases it, so the ear tries the words of others and retains what is convincing. Each chooses according to his taste. The connection with Job 12:12 is in reference to Bildad's appeal to the "ancients" (Job 12:12- :). You are right in appealing to them, since "with them was wisdom," c. But you select such proverbs of theirs as suit your views so I may borrow from the same such as suit mine. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 12:13
13. In contrast to, "with the ancient is wisdom" ( :-), Job quotes a saying of the ancients which suits his argument, "with Him (God) is (the true) wisdom" ( :-); and by that "wisdom and strength" "He breaketh down," c., as an absolute Sovereign, not allowing man to penetrate His mysteries man's part is to bow to His unchangeable decrees (Job 1:21). The Mohammedan saying is, "if God will, and how God will." read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 12:1-25
Job’s reply to Zophar (12:1-14:22)The reply from Job opens with a sarcastic comment on the supposed wisdom of the three friends. They have merely been repeating general truths that everybody knows (12:1-3). They do not have the troubles Job has, and they make no attempt to understand how Job feels. A good person suffers while wicked people live in peace and security (4-6).Job does not argue with the fact that all life is in God’s hands. What worries him is the interpretation of that fact... read more