Job 12:25

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 12:1-25

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHARI. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2-3).His defence is:—1. Ironical (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisdom shall die with you;” the wisdom of mankind is collected in your person, and when you die wisdom must perish at the same time. Times when it may be proper to use the language of irony and sarcasm. Its proper use to put error and pretension to shame. So Elijah to the worshippers of Baal: “Cry aloud for... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 12:1-25

Chapter 12So 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 really ministering or reaching him at all. Now, it's very frustrating to try to explain yourself to people and have people in a mindset where they are determined they know all the answers about you, and yet they don't understand it at all. Oh, how frustrating that is. To talk with people... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 12:1-25

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 following are invincible arguments. Job 12:12 . With the ancient is wisdom. The Hebrews have three words which they use to express degrees of age in old men. Zaken, a man above sixty years of age; Sheb, a man above seventy; Ishish, a man upwards of eighty. Ishish being used here, we may... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 12:13-25

Job 12:13-25Behold, He breaketh down.Job’s maximsPerhaps 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. To show that he had as correct and extensive a view of God’s agency as they had. He gives them here at least six different ideas of God’s agency.I. That it is active both in the mental and the moral world.II. That it is destructive as well as restorative. “Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 12:25

Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man]. Ver. 25. They grope in the dark without light ] This is the second simile, setting forth this judiciary act of God in taking away the heart of the heads of the earth; grope they do, and would fain find out a way by feeling, but they feel darkness, and not light (so the Hebrew); they try to help themselves and their people out of misery, as the last Greek emperor did notably; but it would not... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 12:25

grope: Job 5:14, Genesis 19:11, Deuteronomy 28:29, Isaiah 59:10, Acts 13:11, 1 John 2:11 maketh: Psalms 107:27, Isaiah 19:14, Isaiah 24:20 stagger: Heb. wander Reciprocal: Proverbs 4:19 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 12:25

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.Grope — Thus are the revolutions of kingdoms brought about by an overruling providence. Heaven and earth are shaken: but the Lord remaineth a king forever. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 12:25

25. They grope, etc. They feel the darkness and not light. Gesenius. The reading of the Septuagint is nearly the same. Their blindness must be intense, when the sense of feeling is their sight. He maketh God is said to do what he permits to be done. Men who resist grace he leaves a prey to the laws of nature laws outside of the kingdom of grace. Their work God is said to perform, because it is through laws of his enactment. If he withdraw the enlightening and restraining influences of... read more

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