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Job 12:13
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Wisdom and strength belong to God;counsel and understanding are his.
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
"But only God has wisdom and power, good advice and understanding.
"With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
"But [only] with Him are [perfect] wisdom and might; He [alone] has [true] counsel and understanding.
"Wisdom and might are with Him; Advice and understanding belong to Him.
"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
"With Him are wisdom and might;To Him belong counsel and discernment.
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
But God is the real source of wisdom and strength.
"With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.
With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
But wisdom and power belong to God. Good advice and understanding are his.
With him is wisdom and might, he has counsel and understanding.
"With him are wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him belong counsel and understanding.
With Him is wisdom and strength; He has forethought and understanding.
Yee with God is wy?dome and strength, it is he that hath councell & foreknowlege.
With God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
With Him is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
With him is wisedome & strength, he hath counsell and vnderstanding.
Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge.
With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
Wisdom and strengthe is at God; he hath counsel and vndurstondyng.
With [God] is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.
With him [is] wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
"With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.
"With God are wisdom and strength. Wise words and understanding belong to Him.
"With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding.
With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding.
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
"With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
With Him [are] wisdom and might, To him [are] counsel and understanding.
"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."
"With Him are wisdom and might; To Him belong counsel and understanding.
Contextual Overview
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
Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor's brother Haran.)
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you."
He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem. There he set up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites.
After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord .
When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let's kill him; then we can have her!'
So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you."
Abraham introduced his wife, Sarah, by saying, "She is my sister." So King Abimelech of Gerar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him at his palace.
Didn't Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘Yes, he is my brother.' I acted in complete innocence! My hands are clean."
When the men who lived there asked Isaac about his wife, Rebekah, he said, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "They will kill me to get her, because she is so beautiful."
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.
