Tree of Life Version
Job 12:13
13“With Him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His.
Job 12:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)“To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.
Context of Job 12:13
11Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food? 12Is not wisdom with the aged and understanding bring long life? “With Him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His. 14If He tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; one He imprisons cannot be released. 15If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He releases them, they destroy the earth.
Read all of Job 12Job 12:13 word by word
עִ֭מּוֹ חָכְמָ֣ה וּגְבוּרָ֑ה ל֝֗וֹ עֵצָ֥ה וּתְבוּנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 12:13
- Job 32:6Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite responded and said: “I am young in days and you are old; that is why I was timid and dared not to tell what I know.
- Job 12:16With Him are power and sound wisdom; both deceived and deceiver are His.
- Job 9:4He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and come out whole?
- Job 28:20Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
- Job 36:5“Indeed, God is mighty, but despises none, He is mighty in strength of understanding.
- Psalms 147:5Great is our Lord and mighty in power— His understanding is infinite!
- Proverbs 2:6For Adonai gives wisdom. Out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
- Jeremiah 10:12He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out heaven by His understanding.
- Daniel 2:20and answered, saying: “Blessed be the Name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.
- Luke 21:15for I Myself will give you speech and wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or refute.
- 1 Corinthians 1:24but to those who are called (both Jewish and Greek people), Messiah, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
- Colossians 2:3In Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
- James 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
- Proverbs 8:14Counsel and sound wisdom are mine. I have understanding and power.
- Isaiah 40:13Who can fathom the Ruach Adonai? Or instruct Him as His counselor?
- Isaiah 46:10declaring the end from the beginning, from ancient time, what is yet to come, saying, “My purpose will stand, and I will accomplish all that I please.”
Commentaries on Job 12:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13With him is wisdom and strength - But all these things come from God; he is the Fountain of wisdom and the Source of power. He alone can give us unerring counsel, and understanding to comprehend and act profitably by it. See on Job 12:16; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13With him is wisdom - Margin, correctly, “God.” However much wisdom there may seem to be with aged men, yes the true wisdom - that which was supreme and worthy of the name - was to be found in God alone. The object of Job was to lead the thoughts up to God, and to bring his friends to a contemplation of the wisdom which he manifests in his works. Accordingly he goes on in the remainder of this chapter to state some of the illustrations of wisdom and power…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-25Verses 12-25 This is a noble discourse of Job concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of His own will, which none can resist. It were well if wise and good men, who differ about lesser things, would see how it is for their honour and comfort, and the good of others, to dwell most upon the great things in which they agree. Here are no complaints, or reflections. He…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. In contrast to, "with the ancient is wisdom" (Job 12:12), Job quotes a saying of the ancients which suits his argument, "with Him (God) is (the true) wisdom" (Pr 8:14); 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 the comment
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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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