Job 12:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Job 12:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Jeremiah 8:7
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Job 21:29-30
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, …

Topics

Animals Atheism Attributes of God Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Design

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-11)

Job’s friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with it, that the eyes of the wicked shall fail, Job 11:20. This principle Job here opposes, and maintains that God, in disposing men’s outward affairs, acts as a sovereign, reserving the exact distribution…

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

(vv. 7)

7-8. Beasts, birds, fishes, and plants, reasons Job, teach that the violent live the most securely (Job 12:6). The vulture lives more securely than the dove, the lion than the ox, the shark than the dolphin, the rose than the thorn which tears it.