Ayub 12:17

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Dia yang menggiring menteri dengan telanjang, dan para hakim dibodohkan-Nya.

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Dia yang menggiring menteri dengan telanjang, dan para hakim dibodohkan-Nya.

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Akan menteri-menteri dibawa-Nya dengan tertangkap dan hakim-hakimpun dipergilakan-Nya.

Contextual Overview

¹² Among olde persons there is wysedome, and in age is vnderstanding. ¹³ Yea, with [God] is wysdome and strength, it is he that hath counsell and foreknowledge. ¹⁴ Beholde if he breake downe a thing, who can set it vp againe? yf he shut a thing, who wyll open it? ¹⁵ Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth. ¹⁶ With him is strength and wysdome: both the deceauer and he that is deceaued are his. ¹⁷ He carieth away the wyse men as it were a spoyle, and bringeth the iudges out of their wittes. ¹⁸ He taketh away the subiection of the people from their kinges, and girdeth their loynes with a bonde. ¹⁹ He leadeth away the great men into captiuitie, and turneth the mightie vpside downe. ²⁰ He stoppeth the mouth of them that speake trueth, & disapoynteth the aged of their reason. ²¹ He powreth contempt vpon princes, and maketh the strength of the mightie weake.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Samuel 17:23, Isaiah 19:12-14, Isaiah 29:14, 1 Corinthians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 1:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:32 - Thy servant Job 5:12 - disappointeth Isaiah 19:11 - the princes Daniel 9:12 - our judges

Cross-References

Genesis 12:14
And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.

Genesis 12:15
The princes also of Pharao sawe her, and comended her before Pharao, and the woman was taken into Pharaos house.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.

1 Chronicles 16:21
He suffred no man to do them wrong: yea he reproued euen kinges for their sakes.

1 Chronicles 21:22
And Dauid sayde to Ornan: Geue me the place of the threshing floore, that I may buylde an aulter therin vnto the lord: Thou shalt geue it me for as much money as it is worth, that the plague may ceasse from the people.

Job 34:19
God hath no respect vnto the persons of the lordly, and regardeth not the riche more then the poore: for they be al the worke of his handes.

Hebrews 13:4
Wedlocke is honorable among all men, and the bed vndefiled: But whoremongers and adulterers God wyll iudge.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled,.... Such who have the greatest share of knowledge and wisdom in civil things, and are capable of giving advice to others, and are very useful in commonwealths, in cities, towns, and neighbourhoods; wherefore it is a judgment on a people when such are removed, Isaiah 3:3; these God can spoil at once of all their wisdom and knowledge, and render them unfit to give advice and counsel to others; or he can confound their schemes, disappoint their devices, carry their counsel headlong, and make it of none effect, and so spoil them of their ends and views, and of their fame, credit, and reputation:

and maketh the judges fools; men of great parts, abilities, and capacities, whereby they are qualified to sit upon the bench, preside in courts of judicature, and judge in all matters of controversy that come before them; and it is a happiness to a country to have such persons, as it is a judgment to have them removed, see Isaiah 3:2; yet God can take away the wisdom of such men, deprive them of their natural abilities, and so infatuate them, that they shall not be able to understand a cause, but pass a foolish sentence, to their own shame and disgrace, as well as to the injury of others; see Isaiah 40:23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled - Plundered or captive. That is, the counsels of wise and great men do not avail against God. Statesmen who promised themselves victory as the result of their plans he disappoints, and leads away into captivity. The object of this is to show that God is superior over all, and also that people are not dealt with in exact accordance with their character and rank. God is a sovereign, and he shows his sovereignty when defeating the counsels and purposes of the wisest of men, and overturning the plans of the mighty.

And maketh the judges fools - He leaves them to distracted and foolish plans. He leaves them to the adoption of measures which result in their own ruin. He is a sovereign, having control over the minds of the great, and power to defeat all their counsels, and to render them infatuated. Nothing can be clearer than this. Nothing has been more frequently illustrated in the history of nations. In accordance with this belief is the well-known expression:

Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat.

“Whom God purposes to destroy, he first infatuates.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 12:17. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled — The events of war are also in his hand. It is he who gives victory; through him even the counsellors - the great men and chief men, are often led into captivity, and found among the spoils.

And maketh the judges fools. — He infatuates the judges. Does this refer to the foolish conduct of some of the Israelitish judges, such as Samson?