Job 12:8-18

8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.
11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
12 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
13 “To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.
14 What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.
15 If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.
16 To him belong strength and insight; both deceived and deceiver are his.
17 He leads rulers away stripped and makes fools of judges.
18 He takes off the shackles put on by kings and ties a loincloth[a] around their waist.

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Cross References 22

  • 1. Isaiah 1:3
  • 2. S Job 9:24; Isaiah 41:20
  • 3. Daniel 5:23
  • 4. S Genesis 2:7; S Numbers 16:22; S Job 11:20; Job 27:3; Job 33:4; Acts 17:28
  • 5. Job 34:3
  • 6. S 1 Kings 4:2; Job 15:10
  • 7. ver 20; Job 17:4; Job 32:7,9; Job 34:4,10
  • 8. Job 11:6; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 45:9
  • 9. S Job 9:4; S Jeremiah 32:19; 1 Corinthians 1:24
  • 10. S Numbers 23:19; 1 Kings 3:12; Job 32:8; Job 38:36; Proverbs 2:6; Isaiah 40:13-14; Daniel 1:17
  • 11. Job 16:9; Job 19:10
  • 12. Deuteronomy 13:16; Job 37:7; Psalms 127:1; Isaiah 24:20; Isaiah 25:2; Ezekiel 26:14
  • 13. S Job 9:3; Isaiah 22:22; Revelation 3:7
  • 14. Job 28:25; Isaiah 40:12; 1 Kings 8:35
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 28:22; S 1 Kings 17:1
  • 16. S Genesis 7:24; Genesis 7:11
  • 17. S Job 9:4
  • 18. 2 Chronicles 18:22; Job 13:7,9; Job 27:4; Romans 2:11
  • 19. ver 19; Job 19:9; Isaiah 20:4
  • 20. S Job 3:14; 1 Corinthians 1:20
  • 21. Psalms 107:14; Psalms 116:16; Nahum 1:13
  • 22. ver 21; Job 34:18; Psalms 107:40; Isaiah 5:27; Isaiah 40:23

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or "shackles of kings" / "and ties a belt"
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