Obaja 1:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bukankah pada waktu itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN, Aku akan melenyapkan orang-orang bijaksana dari Edom, dan pengertian dari pegunungan Esau?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bukankah pada waktu itu, demikianlah firman TUHAN, Aku akan melenyapkan orang-orang bijaksana dari Edom, dan pengertian dari pegunungan Esau?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bukankah pada hari itu Aku akan membunuh dari Edom segala orang berbudi dan segala akal dari pegunungan Esaf? demikianlah firman Tuhan.

Contextual Overview

¹ The vision of Abdi, thus sayth the lord God against Edom: We haue hearde a rumor from the Lorde, & an ambassadour is sent among the heathen: arise, and let vs ryse vp against her to battayle. ² Behold, I haue made thee smal among the heathen, thou art vtterly despised. ³ The pride of thyne heart hath deceaued thee, thou that dwellest in the cleftes of the rockes, whose habitation [is] hie, that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me downe to the grounde? ⁴ Yea though thou exalt thy selfe as the egle, and make they nest among the starres, thence wil I bring thee downe, sayth the Lorde. ⁵ Came theeues to thee, or robbers by night? how wast thou brought to silence? woulde they not haue stollen till they had inough? If the grape gatherers came to thee, woulde they not leaue [some] grapes? ⁶ Howe are the thinges of Esau sought vp, [and] his treasures searched? ⁷ All the men of thy confederacie haue driuen thee to the borders, the men that were at peace with thee haue deceaued thee, and preuailed against thee, [they that eate] thy bread haue layd a wounde vnder thee, there is none vnderstanding in him. ⁸ Shal not I in that day, saide the lord, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau? ⁹ And thy strong men O Theman shalbe afraid: because euery one of the mout of Esau shalbe cut of by slaughter.

Bible Verse Review
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even: Job 5:12-14, Psalms 33:10, Isaiah 19:3, Isaiah 19:13, Isaiah 19:14, Isaiah 29:14, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 3:20

Reciprocal: Isaiah 2:11 - in that day Jeremiah 49:7 - Is wisdom

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise [men] out of Edom,.... When they shall be invaded by the enemy, and treacherously dealt with by their allies; so that there shall be no wise counsellors at court to give advice what proper methods should be taken at such a season; they should either be taken off by death, or their wisdom should be turned into folly, and they be rendered incapable of giving right counsel:

and understanding out of the mount of Esau? that is, men of understanding, as the Targum, should be destroyed out of Edom or Idumea, which was a mountainous country; such as were well versed in politics, or understood military affairs, and how to conduct at such a critical time; to form schemes, and concert measures, and wisely put them in execution; and to be deprived of all such must be a great loss at such a time, and add to their distress and calamity; see Jeremiah 49:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall I not in that day even destroy the wise out of Edom? - It was then no common, no recoverable, loss of wisdom, for God, the Author of wisdom, had destroyed it. The pagan had a proverb, “whom God willeth to destroy, he first dements.” So Isaiah foretells of Judah Isaiah 29:14, “The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent shall be hid.” Edom was celebrated of old for its wisdom. Eliphaz, the chief of Job’s friends, the representative of human wisdom, was a Temanite Job 4:1. A vestige of the name of the Shuhites, from where came another of his friends, probably still lingers among the mountains of Edom. Edom is doubtless included among the “sons of the East” 1 Kings 4:30 whose wisdom is set as a counterpart to that of Egypt, the highest human wisdom of that period, by which that of Solomon would be measured. “Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East country and all the wisdom of Egypt.” In Baruch, they are still mentioned among the chief types of human wisdom (Bar. 3:22, 23). “It (wisdom) hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman. The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables and searchers-out of understanding, none of these have known, the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.”

Whence, Jeremiah Jeremiah 49:7, in using, these words of Obadiah, says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Is counsel perished from the prudent? Is their wisdom vanished?” He speaks, as though Edom were a known abode of human wisdom, so that it was strange that it was found there no more. He speaks of the Edomites “as prudent,” discriminating , full of judgment, and wonders that counsel should have “perished” from them. They had it eminently then, before it perished. They thought themselves wise; they were thought so; but God took it away at their utmost need. So He says of Egypt Isaiah 19:3, Isaiah 19:11-12. “I will destroy the counsel thereof. The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Where are they? Who are thy wise? And let them tell thee now, and let them know, what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.” And of Judah Jeremiah 19:7. “I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place.”

The people of the world think that they hold their wisdom and all God’s natural gifts, independently of the Giver (God). God, by the events of His natural Providence, as here by His word, shows, through some sudden withdrawal of their wisdom, that it is His, not their’s! People wonder at the sudden failure, the flaw in the well-arranged plan, the one over-confident act which ruins the whole scheme, the over-shrewdness which betrays itself, or the unaccountable oversight. They are amazed that one so shrewd should overlook this or that, and think not that He, in whose hands are our powers of thought, supplied not just that insight, Whereon the whole depended.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Obadiah 1:8. Shall I not - destroy the wise men] It appears, from Jeremiah 49:7, that the Edomites were remarkable for wisdom, counsel, and prudence. See on the above place.