New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 12:11-25
11Does not 1the ear test words, As the palate 2tastes its food?12Wisdom is with 3aged men, With 4long life is understanding.
13“With Him are 5wisdom and 6might; To Him belong counsel and 7understanding.14Behold, He 8tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He 910imprisons a man, and 11there can be no release.15Behold, He 12restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He 13sends them out, and they 14inundate the earth.16With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The 15misled and the misleader belong to Him.17He makes 16counselors walk 17barefoot And makes fools of 18judges.18He 19loosens the 20bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.19He makes priests walk 21barefoot And overthrows 22the secure ones.20He deprives the trusted ones of speech And 23takes away the discernment of the elders.21He 24pours contempt on nobles And 25loosens the belt of the strong.22He 26reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.23He 27makes the nations great, then destroys them; He 28enlarges the nations, then leads them away.24He 29deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.25They 30grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them 31stagger like a drunken man.
Notes
- 1. Job 12:11 Job 34:3 ↩
- 2. Job 12:11 Lit tastes food for itself ↩
- 3. Job 12:12 Job 15:10; 32:7 ↩
- 4. Job 12:12 Lit length of days ↩
- 5. Job 12:13 Job 9:4 ↩
- 6. Job 12:13 Job 9:4 ↩
- 7. Job 12:13 Job 11:6; 26:12; 32:8; 36:5; 38:36 ↩
- 8. Job 12:14 Job 19:10; Is 25:2 ↩
- 9. Job 12:14 Lit shuts against ↩
- 10. Job 12:14 Job 37:7 ↩
- 11. Job 12:14 Lit it is not opened ↩
- 12. Job 12:15 Deut 11:17; 1 Kin 8:35; 17:1 ↩
- 13. Job 12:15 Gen 7:11-24 ↩
- 14. Job 12:15 Lit overturn ↩
- 15. Job 12:16 Job 13:7, 9 ↩
- 16. Job 12:17 Job 3:14 ↩
- 17. Job 12:17 Or stripped ↩
- 18. Job 12:17 Job 9:24 ↩
- 19. Job 12:18 Ps 116:16 ↩
- 20. Job 12:18 Or discipline ↩
- 21. Job 12:19 Or stripped ↩
- 22. Job 12:19 Job 24:22; 34:24-28; 35:9 ↩
- 23. Job 12:20 Job 17:4; 32:9 ↩
- 24. Job 12:21 Job 34:19; Ps 107:40 ↩
- 25. Job 12:21 Job 12:18 ↩
- 26. Job 12:22 Dan 2:22; 1 Cor 4:5 ↩
- 27. Job 12:23 Is 9:3; 26:15 ↩
- 28. Job 12:23 Or spreads out ↩
- 29. Job 12:24 Job 12:20 ↩
- 30. Job 12:25 Job 5:14 ↩
- 31. Job 12:25 Is 24:20 ↩
Commentaries on Job 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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