Job 12:7-10

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 12:7

Job 12:7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee.An appeal to the living creaturesRosenmuller supposes that this appeal to the inferior creation should be regarded as connected with Job 12:3, and that the intermediate verses are parenthetic. Zophar had spoken with considerable parade of the wisdom of God. He professed to have exalted views of the Most High. In reply to this, Job says that the views which Zophar had expressed were the most commonplace imaginable. He need not pretend to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 12:8

Job 12:8Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. The teaching of the earthTo the attentive ear all the earth is eloquent; to the reflecting mind all nature is symbolical. Each object has a voice which reaches the inner ear, and speaks lessons of wise and solemn import. The stream murmurs unceasingly its secrets; Sibylline breeze in mountain glens and in lonely forests sighs forth its oracles. The face of nature is everywhere written over with Divine characters which he who runs may read.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 12:9-10

Job 12:9-10Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? God and natureIf one could possibly laugh the laugh of the scornful, surely there is temptation enough in the teachings of a modern science, and in the attempt to build up before us a self-created world without God. But we are not endowed with such a scornful spirit. Modern science is too wonderful, and its discoveries too fascinating for us to laugh at it. We never dream of suggesting that a vast edifice... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 12:7

Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Ver. 7. But ask now the beasts of the earth, and they shall teach thee ] Even the wildest of them that abide in the wilderness. There is not one of these, or else of the fowls of the air, but can both teach thee, and tell thee that the world is ordered by a providence, that God is powerful, wise, just, &c., and must therefore be loved and served. That he suffereth the bad to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 12:8

Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Ver. 8. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ] Teach thee? what? Surely many good lessons; as that of humility and modesty, considering our origin, Terra quam terimus docet terram quam gerimus; that of fruitfulness, while she liberally yields her riches and strength, and brings forth food for the maintenance of those innumerable armies of creatures that live upon her; but... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 12:9

Job 12:9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? Ver. 9. Who knoweth not in all these, &c. ] Or, by all these before mentioned creatures, &c., and therefore, Zophar, you have showen no more wisdom in your lofty discourse than the birds, beasts, and fishes have taught and told us. It is a silly vanity to pretend mysteriousness about vulgar truths; to dig deep for that which lieth above ground, Theologia cryptica; to talk of new truths, and never... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 12:10

Job 12:10 In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Ver. 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing ] That is, the life of every beast, flowing from a sensitive soul, Leviticus 17:10-11 . This, God both giveth to the creature and conserveth it; he suffereth it not to be taken away from little sparrows, or the like, without order from him; much less befalleth any such thing to man without his singular providence, since our very hairs also are... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 12:7

But ask: Job 21:29, Job 21:30, Proverbs 6:6, Isaiah 1:3, Jeremiah 8:7 Reciprocal: Job 8:10 - Shall not Job 18:3 - Wherefore Proverbs 30:24 - little read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 12:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:25 - General Job 8:10 - Shall not Job 18:3 - Wherefore Proverbs 6:6 - the ant read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 12:9

Who: Job 12:3, Acts 19:35 the hand: Job 22:18, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, 1 Samuel 2:7, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Daniel 9:17, Daniel 5:18, Romans 11:36, James 2:5-Judges : Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - Thus Numbers 26:51 - General Job 13:1 - Lo Job 21:16 - Lo Psalms 17:14 - belly Isaiah 41:20 - General read more

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