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Verse Job 12:13. _WITH 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...
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WITH 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 alon...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God ...
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Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the
ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's
wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only
wise...
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HIM: i.e. Jehovah (Job 12:9)....
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_With him is wisdom and strength_ i. e. with God, _him_being emphatic.
There is no antithesis however between His wisdom and that of the aged
referred to Job 12:12. The passage that follows to the end...
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Job 12:7-10 referred to what one could _see_of God's power and wisdom
in the world, these verses refer to what one might learn of them by
_hearing_ancient men discourse regarding them. In ch. Job 13:1...
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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
f...
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3. ARBITRARILY HE DECREES WHAT WILL BE. (JOB 12:13-25)
TEXT 12:13-25
13 With _God_ is wisdom and might;
He hath counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again...
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_WITH HIM IS WISDOM AND STRENGTH, HE HATH COUNSEL AND UNDERSTANDING._
In contrast "with the ancient is wisdom" (Job 12:12), Job quotes a
saying of the ancients which suits his argument - "With Him (Go...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 12
JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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God is powerful. He is much greater than any person. He even controls
the weather (verse 15). He knows when we lie (verse 16). And he is our
judge (verse 14)....
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עִ֭מֹּו חָכְמָ֣ה וּ גְבוּרָ֑ה לֹ֝֗ו
עֵצָ֥ה וּ
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS”
Job 12:1
Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness
invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he
bitterly complains that his...
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Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well
as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills
with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
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(11) Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (12)
В¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
(13) With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and
unders...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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WITH HIM [IS] WISDOM AND STRENGTH,.... Not with the ancient and long
lived man, but with God, who has made the whole universe, and in whose
hand and at whose dispose all creatures are, Job 12:9; with...
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With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Ver. 13. _With him is wisdom and strength, &c._] Wisdom, strength,
counsel, and understanding, are all concentred in the Ancient...
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_With him is wisdom_ That is, with God. Perfect wisdom is only in him,
and all wisdom in the world cometh from him, who giveth to young and
old as it pleaseth him. The ancients were not wise without h...
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With Him is wisdom and strength, He possesses them as His personal
qualities, as His essential attributes; HE HATH COUNSEL AND
UNDERSTANDING, the ability to discern what is right and wrong, sound
and...
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God's Government of the World...
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JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM
(vv.1-25)
Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are
the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied
that h...
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WITH HIM:
That is, with God...
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"God's destructive powers are irreversible. If He tears down, 'it
cannot be rebuilt', and if He imprisons someone, he cannot escape.
When He holds back waters, there is drought, and if He releases the...
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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 c...
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WITH HIM, i.e. with God; the relative being put for the antecedent,
which is easily and necessarily understood out of the scope of the
place, and all the following verses. WISDOM; perfect wisdom is on...
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Job 12:13 wisdom H2451 strength H1369 counsel H6098 understanding
H8394
him - that is, God, Job 32:6-9
wisdom -...
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CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all
things by rules with which t...
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Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be
rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers;
referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the
fo...
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_Behold, He breaketh down._
JOB’S MAXIMS
Perhaps Job uses this lofty language concerning God for two reasons.
1. To show that he could speak as grandly of the Eternal as his
friends had spoken.
2....
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with
his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims
of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:13 In these verses, Job asserts that God’s
providential governing of the world is much more extensive than his
friends realize.
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_
I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in
Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2).
His defence is:—
1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and
wisd...
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EXPOSITION
The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters
(Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion
of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
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So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and
wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2).
He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers,
and they're not...
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1 Corinthians 1:24; Colossians 2:3; Daniel 2:20; Ephesians 1:11;...