New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 12:12-25
12Wisdom is with 1aged men, With 2long life is understanding.
13“With Him are 3wisdom and 4might; To Him belong counsel and 5understanding.14Behold, He 6tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He 78imprisons a man, and 9there can be no release.15Behold, He 10restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He 11sends them out, and they 12inundate the earth.16With Him are strength and sound wisdom, The 13misled and the misleader belong to Him.17He makes 14counselors walk 15barefoot And makes fools of 16judges.18He 17loosens the 18bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.19He makes priests walk 19barefoot And overthrows 20the secure ones.20He deprives the trusted ones of speech And 21takes away the discernment of the elders.21He 22pours contempt on nobles And 23loosens the belt of the strong.22He 24reveals mysteries from the darkness And brings the deep darkness into light.23He 25makes the nations great, then destroys them; He 26enlarges the nations, then leads them away.24He 27deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste.25They 28grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them 29stagger like a drunken man.
Notes
- 1. Job 12:12 Job 15:10; 32:7 ↩
- 2. Job 12:12 Lit length of days ↩
- 3. Job 12:13 Job 9:4 ↩
- 4. Job 12:13 Job 9:4 ↩
- 5. Job 12:13 Job 11:6; 26:12; 32:8; 36:5; 38:36 ↩
- 6. Job 12:14 Job 19:10; Is 25:2 ↩
- 7. Job 12:14 Lit shuts against ↩
- 8. Job 12:14 Job 37:7 ↩
- 9. Job 12:14 Lit it is not opened ↩
- 10. Job 12:15 Deut 11:17; 1 Kin 8:35; 17:1 ↩
- 11. Job 12:15 Gen 7:11-24 ↩
- 12. Job 12:15 Lit overturn ↩
- 13. Job 12:16 Job 13:7, 9 ↩
- 14. Job 12:17 Job 3:14 ↩
- 15. Job 12:17 Or stripped ↩
- 16. Job 12:17 Job 9:24 ↩
- 17. Job 12:18 Ps 116:16 ↩
- 18. Job 12:18 Or discipline ↩
- 19. Job 12:19 Or stripped ↩
- 20. Job 12:19 Job 24:22; 34:24-28; 35:9 ↩
- 21. Job 12:20 Job 17:4; 32:9 ↩
- 22. Job 12:21 Job 34:19; Ps 107:40 ↩
- 23. Job 12:21 Job 12:18 ↩
- 24. Job 12:22 Dan 2:22; 1 Cor 4:5 ↩
- 25. Job 12:23 Is 9:3; 26:15 ↩
- 26. Job 12:23 Or spreads out ↩
- 27. Job 12:24 Job 12:20 ↩
- 28. Job 12:25 Job 5:14 ↩
- 29. 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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