Verse 13
Section Second THE WISDOM OF GOD, SUBORDINATED TO INFINITE AND IRRESISTIBLE POWER, INVOLVES THE DIVINE MORAL GOVERNMENT IN AN INEXPLICABLE MAZE, Job 12:13-25.
First double strophe. Job 12:13-18.
a. Admits the wisdom and power of God, as illustrated by the divine government in the natural world, Job 12:13-15.
13. Him God. The rest of this chapter is thought by some to be an old Idumaean poem, or else a collection of maxims handed down from antediluvian ancestors or sages. (Wemyss.) In the original, the first word, WISDOM, ( hhokmah,) is the general and most comprehensive word for wisdom; the second, STRENGTH, ( gebourah,) from the same root as geber, man, implies the ability to carry into execution the behest of the will; the third, COUNSEL, ( ‘ hetsah,) gives the idea of “strength,” the “making firm” practical wisdom; fourth, UNDERSTANDING, ( tebounah,) implies the intellectual perception, characterized by its power of penetrating into, and distinguishing between, the true and false.
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