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New Century Version

Job 12:13

"But only God has wisdom and power, good advice and understanding.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atheism;   God;   God Continued...;   Philosophy;   Religion;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Wisdom;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Government;   Nations;   Strength;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wisdom and strength belong to God;counsel and understanding are his.
Hebrew Names Version
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
King James Version
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
English Standard Version
"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
New English Translation
"With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
Amplified Bible
"But [only] with Him are [perfect] wisdom and might; He [alone] has [true] counsel and understanding.
New American Standard Bible
"Wisdom and might are with Him; Advice and understanding belong to Him.
World English Bible
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Geneva Bible (1587)
With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
Legacy Standard Bible
"With Him are wisdom and might;To Him belong counsel and discernment.
Berean Standard Bible
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
Contemporary English Version
But God is the real source of wisdom and strength.
Complete Jewish Bible
"With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.
Darby Translation
With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
Easy-to-Read Version
But wisdom and power belong to God. Good advice and understanding are his.
George Lamsa Translation
With him is wisdom and might, he has counsel and understanding.
Lexham English Bible
"With him are wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him belong counsel and understanding.
Literal Translation
With Him is wisdom and strength; He has forethought and understanding.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.
American Standard Version
With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
Bible in Basic English
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
King James Version (1611)
With him is wisedome & strength, he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
English Revised Version
With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wisdom and strengthe is at God; he hath counsel and vndurstondyng.
Update Bible Version
With [God] is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.
Webster's Bible Translation
With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
New King James Version
"With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.
New Living Translation
"But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are his.
New Life Bible
"With God are wisdom and strength. Wise words and understanding belong to Him.
New Revised Standard
"With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.
Douay-Rheims Bible
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Revised Standard Version
"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
With Him [are] wisdom and might, To him [are] counsel and understanding.
THE MESSAGE
"True wisdom and real power belong to God; from him we learn how to live, and also what to live for. If he tears something down, it's down for good; if he locks people up, they're locked up for good. If he holds back the rain, there's a drought; if he lets it loose, there's a flood. Strength and success belong to God; both deceived and deceiver must answer to him. He strips experts of their vaunted credentials, exposes judges as witless fools. He divests kings of their royal garments, then ties a rag around their waists. He strips priests of their robes, and fires high officials from their jobs. He forces trusted sages to keep silence, deprives elders of their good sense and wisdom. He dumps contempt on famous people, disarms the strong and mighty. He shines a spotlight into caves of darkness, hauls deepest darkness into the noonday sun. He makes nations rise and then fall, builds up some and abandons others. He robs world leaders of their reason, and sends them off into no-man's-land. They grope in the dark without a clue, lurching and staggering like drunks."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.

Contextual Overview

12 Older people are wise, and long life brings understanding. 13 "But only God has wisdom and power, good advice and understanding. 14 What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; anyone he puts in prison cannot be let out. 15 If God holds back the waters, there is no rain; if he lets the waters go, they flood the land. 16 He is strong and victorious; both the one who fools others and the one who is fooled belong to him. 17 God leads the wise away as captives and turns judges into fools. 18 He takes off chains that kings put on and puts a garment on their bodies. 19 He leads priests away naked and destroys the powerful. 20 He makes trusted people be silent and takes away the wisdom of elders. 21 He brings disgrace on important people and takes away the weapons of the strong.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

him: that is, God, Job 32:6-9

wisdom: Job 12:16, Job 9:4, Job 28:20-28, Job 36:5, Psalms 147:5, Proverbs 2:6, Proverbs 2:7, Jeremiah 10:12, Daniel 2:20, Luke 21:15, 1 Corinthians 1:24, Colossians 2:3, James 1:5

counsel: Proverbs 8:14, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, Isaiah 46:10, Romans 11:34, Ephesians 1:8, Ephesians 1:11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 10:6 - took counsel Job 36:24 - magnify Job 37:23 - excellent Acts 4:28 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Abram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:5
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and everything they owned, as well as all the servants they had gotten in Haran. They set out from Haran, planning to go to the land of Canaan, and in time they arrived there.
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through that land as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
Genesis 12:8
Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.
Genesis 12:12
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife.' Then they will kill me but let you live.
Genesis 12:13
Tell them you are my sister so that things will go well with me and I may be allowed to live because of you."
Genesis 20:2
he told people that his wife Sarah was his sister. Abimelech king of Gerar heard this, so he sent some servants to take her.
Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."
Genesis 26:7
His wife Rebekah was very beautiful, and the men of that place asked Isaac about her. Isaac said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to tell them she was his wife. He thought they might kill him so they could have her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With him [is] wisdom and strength,.... Not with the ancient and long lived man, but with God, who has made the whole universe, and in whose hand and at whose dispose all creatures are, Job 12:9; with him wisdom is originally, essentially, and inderivatively, as the fountain and fulness of it; he is the only and all wise God; his wisdom is displayed in making the world, and all things in it, in the beautiful manner they are set, and in their subserviency to each other; in all the dispensations of his providence, having all a "bathos", a depth of wisdom and knowledge in them, being all according to the counsel of his will; and in the work of redemption and salvation by Christ, in which he has abounded in all wisdom and prudence; in finding out and appointing a Redeemer, mighty and strong, equal to the work; in contriving and bringing it about, in such a manner as to glorify all his perfections; hence the Gospel, which is the publication of this grace, is called the wisdom of God: and with him is wisdom to communicate to his people, to direct them how to behave under every providence, in every station of life, in the church, and in the world, see James 1:5; and he has "strength", which he has shown in making the world out of nothing, in upholding it, and all things in it in being, in executing his designs, decrees, and purposes, in fulfilling his promises, and in supporting and strengthening his people, under all their trials and exercises, to withstand every enemy, and perform every duty; ancient men, though they may increase in wisdom, they decline in strength, but God has both, in infinite perfection:

he hath counsel and understanding; his decrees and purposes, wisely formed within himself, are his counsels of old, and which are truly and punctually performed in time; his plan of peace, reconciliation, and salvation by Christ, may, with propriety, be called the counsel of peace between them both; and the Gospel, and the various doctrines of it, are the whole counsel of God, and so are the ordinances of it; and besides these, by which he counsels and advises his people, he has counsel with him, and which he gives unto them by his spirit, for which they bless his name; and so even did Christ as man and Mediator,

Psalms 16:7; he has counsel to give, and does give in things temporal, relating to the common affairs of life, and in things concerning the good and welfare of immortal souls; all which comes from him who is "wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working", Isaiah 28:29; and he has an "understanding" that is infinite and unsearchable; he has an understanding of himself, his nature, perfections, and persons of all his creatures, and of all things past, present, and to come; the same things are said of Christ, the wisdom of God, Proverbs 8:14. Job, having observed these things of God, passes on to discourse most admirably and excellently of the power and wisdom of God in various instances, especially in the dispensations of his providence, by which he appears to have known the secrets of wisdom, and not so ignorant as represented by Zophar.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 particularly to show that he was a sovereign, and did his pleasure every where. He made all things; he sustains all things; he reverses the condition of people at his pleasure; he sets up whom he pleases, and when he chooses he casts them down. His works are contrary in many respects to what we should anticipate; and the sense of all is, that God was a holy and a righteous sovereign, and that such were the reverses under his administration that we could not argue that he treated all according to their character on earth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 12:13. With him is wisdom and strength — But all these things come from GOD; he is the Fountain of wisdom and the Source of power. He alone can give us unerring counsel, and understanding to comprehend and act profitably by it. See on Job 12:16.


 
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