Job 12:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

Job 12:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job 36:5
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
Proverbs 2:6-7
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. …
James 1:5
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Job 28:20-28
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-25)

This is a noble discourse of Job’s concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist. Take both him and them out of the controversy in which they were so warmly engaged, and they all spoke admirably well; but, in that, we sometimes scarcely know…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. In contrast to, “with the ancient is wisdom” (Job 12:12), Job quotes a saying of the ancients which suits his argument, “with Him (God) is (the true) wisdom” (Pr 8:14); and by that “wisdom and strength” “He breaketh down,” &c., as an absolute Sovereign, not allowing man to penetrate His mysteries; man’s part is to bow to His unchangeable decrees (Job 1:21). The Mohammedan saying is, “if God wi…