Job 12:9 - Exposition

Who knoweth not in all these ; or, by all these ; i.e. by all these instances. That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? literally, the hand of Jehovah. The name "Jehovah does not occur elsewhere in the dialogue, though it is employed frequently in the historical sections ( Job 1:6-12 , Job 1:21 ; Job 2:1-7 ; Job 38:1 ; Job 40:1 , Job 40:3 , Job 40:6 ; Job 42:1 , Job 42:7-12 ). The writer probably regards the name as unfamiliar, if not unknown, to Job's neighbours, and therefore as avoided by him in his discussions with them. But here, for once, he forgets to be consistent with himself. Outside Scripture, the name is first found on the Moabite Stone, where it designates the God worshipped by the Israelites.