Job 12:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Job 12:8 —

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

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. 8)

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.