Ayub 12:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dia membuka belenggu yang dikenakan oleh raja-raja dan mengikat pinggang mereka dengan tali pengikat.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dia membuka belenggu yang dikenakan oleh raja-raja dan mengikat pinggang mereka dengan tali pengikat.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Pengikat raja-raja diuraikan-Nya, atau dikenakan-Nya pengikat pada pinggang mereka itu.

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 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

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.

Genesis 12:9
And Abram toke his iourney, goyng and iourneying towarde the south.

Genesis 12:10
[And] the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande.

Genesis 12:11
And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon:

Genesis 31:26
And Laban said to Iacob: what hast thou done? for thou hast stollen away my heart, and caryed away my daughters as though they had ben taken captiue with the sworde.

Genesis 44:15
And Ioseph sayde vnto them: what deede is this that ye haue done? Wote ye not that suche a man as I do consult with propheciers?

Exodus 32:21
And Moyses said vnto Aaron: What did this people vnto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sinne vpon them?

Joshua 7:19
And Iosuah sayde vnto Achan: My sonne, I beseche thee geue glorie to the Lorde God of Israel, and make confession vnto him, and shewe me what thou hast done, hyde it not from me.

1 Samuel 14:43
Then Saul saide to Ionathan: Tell me what thou hast done. And Ionathan tolde him, and sayde: I tasted a litle honie with the ende of the rod that was in myne hand, & lo, I must dye.

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.