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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 12:13

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 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 which God had exhibited, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 12:13

Job 12:13 . 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 his gift and grace, and with that a younger man may be wiser than the ancients. He hath counsel Practical wisdom to guide and govern all the affairs of the world; and understanding A perfect knowledge of all persons and things. “Job shows, in the following verses, that the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 12:1-25

Job’s reply to Zophar (12:1-14:22)The reply from Job opens with a sarcastic comment on the supposed wisdom of the three friends. They have merely been repeating general truths that everybody knows (12:1-3). They do not have the troubles Job has, and they make no attempt to understand how Job feels. A good person suffers while wicked people live in peace and security (4-6).Job does not argue with the fact that all life is in God’s hands. What worries him is the interpretation of that fact... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 12:13

Him: i.e. Jehovah (Job 12:9 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 12:13

GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER CONTRASTED WITH THAT OF MEN"With God is wisdom and might;He hath counsel and understanding.Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again;He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up;Again he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.With him is strength and wisdom;The deceived and the deceiver are his.He leadeth counselors away stripped,And judges maketh he fools.He looseth the bond of kings,And bindeth... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 12:13

Job 12:13. 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 foregoing verse, where wisdom is said to BE with old men, but here to DWELL with GOD, as in its proper and peculiar home, the fountain of all human wisdom. Job shews, in the following verses, that the affairs of the world, and the fortunes of men, are subject to such a variety of changes... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 12:13

13. In contrast to, "with the ancient is wisdom" ( :-), Job quotes a saying of the ancients which suits his argument, "with Him (God) is (the true) wisdom" ( :-); 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 more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 12:1-19

Job’s repudiation of his friends 12:1-13:19Job 12:2 is irony; his companions were not as wise as they thought. Job pointed out that much of what they had said about God was common knowledge (cf. Job 5:9-10; Job 8:13-19; Job 11:7-9). Nonetheless their conclusion, that the basis of man’s relationship with God is his deeds, did not fit the facts of life. Job cited his own case as proof, as well as the fact that the wicked often prosper (Job 12:6). He said even the animals know that God sends... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 12:1-22

6. Job’s first reply to Zophar chs. 12-14In these chapters Job again rebutted his friends and their view of God. He also challenged God and brooded over death. Half of this section is dialogue with his friends (Job 12:1 to Job 13:19) and half is prayer to God (Job 13:20 to Job 14:22). Job could not agree with his friends’ conclusion, but neither could he explain why God was dealing with him as He was. He could only conclude that God was not just. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 12:1-25

Job’s Third Speech (Job 12-14)The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, ’I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisdom are directed to unrighteous ends.’ But it is with God rather than with them that he wishes to argue, and come what may he will utter all he feels. He challenges God to name his sins, presses man’s hopeless destiny as a reason for God’s pity, longs that God might shelter him out of reach of His... read more