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THE MESSAGE
Job 12:18
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He releases the bonds put on by kingsand fastens a belt around their waists.
He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.
He takes off chains that kings put on and puts a garment on their bodies.
He loosens the bonds of kings and binds a loincloth around their waist.
"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a loincloth.
"He undoes the binding of kings, And ties a loincloth around their waist.
He loosens the bond of kings, He binds their loins with a belt.
He looseth the collar of Kings, and girdeth their loynes with a girdle.
He opens the bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a belt.
He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.
and makes slaves of kings.
He removes authority from kings, then binds them up [as prisoners].
He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;
He strips kings of their authority and makes them slaves.
He brings kings down to beg at the gates, and girds their loins with girdles of power.
He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;
He loosens the fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins.
He loosens the bonds of kings, and He binds their loins with a girdle;
He lowseth the gyrdle of kynges, and gyrdeth their loynes with a bonde.
He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.
He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loines with a girdle.
He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde.
He seats kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle.
He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
He vnbindith the girdil of kyngis, and girdith her reynes with a coorde.
He looses the authority of kings, and he binds their loins with a girdle.
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
He loosens the bonds of kings, And binds their waist with a belt.
He removes the royal robe of kings. They are led away with ropes around their waist.
He takes off chains put on by kings, and holds back the power of kings.
He looses the sash of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
The fetters of kings, He looseth, or hath bound a slave's waistcloth about their loins:
He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
He looses the bonds of kings, and binds a waistcloth on their loins.
The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
"He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
2 Chronicles 33:11-14, Jeremiah 52:31-34, Daniel 2:21, Revelation 19:16
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:32 - Thy servant Job 30:11 - loosed Isaiah 5:27 - neither Isaiah 45:5 - I girded thee Daniel 4:32 - until
Cross-References
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."
Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
"What do you mean," said Laban, "by keeping me in the dark and sneaking off, hauling my daughters off like prisoners of war? Why did you run off like a thief in the night? Why didn't you tell me? Why, I would have sent you off with a great celebration—music, timbrels, flutes! But you wouldn't permit me so much as a kiss for my daughters and grandchildren. It was a stupid thing for you to do. If I had a mind to, I could destroy you right now, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, ‘Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad.' I understand. You left because you were homesick. But why did you steal my household gods?"
Joseph accused them: "How can you have done this? You have to know that a man in my position would have discovered this."
Moses said to Aaron, "What on Earth did these people ever do to you that you involved them in this huge sin?"
Joshua spoke to Achan, "My son, give glory to God , the God of Israel. Make your confession to him. Tell me what you did. Don't keep back anything from me."
Saul confronted Jonathan. "What did you do? Tell me!" Jonathan said, "I licked a bit of honey off the tip of the staff I was carrying. That's it—and for that I'm to die?"
Good leadership is a channel of water controlled by God ; he directs it to whatever ends he chooses.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He looseth the bonds of kings,.... Not with which they themselves may be bound, being taken prisoners, or being so before made kings, and brought from thence to reign, as in Ecclesiastes 4:14; but that which they bind on their subjects, a yoke of bondage, tyranny, and oppression; so that to loose their bond is to loose their subjects from it, and free them from their arbitrary and despotic power, and from the burdens they lay upon them: unless rather it should be understood of loosing their waistbands, as an emblem of their government, ungirding them, or unkinging them, stripping them of their royal power and authority, called a "loosing of their loins", Isaiah 45:1; and this power God has over such great personages, as to set up kings, and remove them at his pleasure, Daniel 2:21; which shows that strength and power, as well as wisdom, are with him; this may respect Chedorlaomer casting off the yoke of Nimrod, and the kings of Canaan casting off the yoke of Chedorlaomer, and being loosed from it, Genesis 14:1;
and girdeth their loins with a girdle; not with a royal waistband, as an ensign of government; see Isaiah 11:5; which he looses, and strips them of, but another instead of that; he girds them with the girdle of a servant or traveller; the allusion being to the custom in those eastern countries, where they wore long garments, for servants to gird them up, when they waited on their masters, or when men went long journeys, see Luke 17:7; and so may signify that kings sometimes become servants, or go into captivity, and there be used as such, as they sometimes are; the Vulgate Latin version is, "he girds their reins with a rope".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He looseth the bond of kings - The bond of kings (מוּסר mûsâr) here means that by which they bind others. Their power over others he loosens or takes away.
And girdeth their loins with a girdle - That is, he girds them with a rope or cord, and leads them away as prisoners. The whole series of remarks here refers to the reverses and changes in the conditions of life. The meaning here is, that the bonds of authority which they imposed on others are unbound, and that their own loins are bound with a girdle, not a girdle of royal dignity and ornament, but such a one as they are bound with who are servants, or who travel. “Pict. Bib.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:18. He looseth the bond of kings — He takes away their splendid robes, and clothes them with sackcloth; or, he dissolves their authority, permits their subjects to rebel and overthrow the state, to bind them as captives, and despoil them of all power, authority, and liberty. Many proofs of this occur in the Israelitish history and in the history of the principal nations of the earth, and not a few in the history of Britain.
