Job 12:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

Job 12:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 2:21
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Psalms 116:16
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
2 Chronicles 33:11-14
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. …
Jeremiah 52:31-34
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, …
Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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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. 18)

18. He looseth the bond of kings--He looseth the authority of kings--the “bond” with which they bind their subjects (Is 45:1; Ge 14:4; Da 2:21). a girdle--the cord, with which they are bound as captives, instead of the royal “girdle” they once wore (Is 22:21), and the bond they once bound others with. So “gird”--put on one the bonds of a prisoner instead of the ordinary girdle (Joh 21:18).