Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 12:23
Nations — What hitherto he said of princes, he now applies to nations, whom God does either increase or diminish as he pleases.
Nations — What hitherto he said of princes, he now applies to nations, whom God does either increase or diminish as he pleases.
Verse Job 12:23. _HE INCREASETH THE NATIONS_] Mr. _Good_ translates, _He_ _letteth the nations grow licentious_. Pride, fulness of bread, with extensive trade and commerce, produce luxury; and this i...
HE INCREASETH THE NATIONS, AND DESTROYETH THEM - He has entire control over them. The sources of prosperity are in his hand, and at his pleasure he can visit them with famine, pestilence, or war, and...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wise...
INCREASETH. maketh them great. Occurs only here and Job 36:24....
God's rule among the nations and direction of their fate. _and straiteneth them_again] Perhaps, _and leadeth them away_, cf. 2 Kings 18:17. The clause is obscure, it may not be a direct, but an invers...
Job 12:7-10 referred to what one could _see_of God's power and wisdom in the world, these verses refer to what one might learn of them by _hearing_ancient men discourse regarding them. In ch. Job 13:1...
3. ARBITRARILY HE DECREES WHAT WILL BE. (JOB 12:13-25) TEXT 12:13-25 13 With _God_ is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again...
_HE INCREASETH THE NATIONS, AND DESTROYETH THEM: HE ENLARGETH THE NATIONS, AND STRAITENETH THEM AGAIN._ He increaseth the nations. "Thou hast multiplied the nation," etc., (Isaiah 9:3; Psalms 107:38,...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisd...
STRAITENETH THEM _again_] RM 'leadeth them away into captivity.'...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
God is much more powerful than any ruler. God gives power to rulers (John 19:11). And God causes their power to end (Daniel 2:21). God appoints new kings (1 Kings 19:15-16). God makes proud people hum...
HE INCREASETH THE NATIONS, AND DESTROYETH THEM. — The latter part of this chapter teaches us a truth that is apt to be forgotten in the present day, which is, nevertheless, the key to much of the hist...
מַשְׂגִּ֣יא לַ֭ † גֹּויִם וַֽ יְאַבְּדֵ֑ם שֹׁטֵ֥חַ...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his...
Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
He (m) increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again]. (m) In this discourse of God's wonderful works, Job shows that whatever is done in this wor...
_Multiplieth. Hebrew, Septuagint, and Syriac, "deceiveth," (Calmet) suffering them to confide too much in their strength, so that they fall an easy prey. (Haydock) --- How many nations, once so powerf...
(11) Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (12) В¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (13) With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and unders...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
HE INCREASETH THE NATIONS, AND DESTROYETH THEM,.... As he did before the flood, when the earth was tilled, and all over peopled with them, but at the flood he destroyed them at once. Sephorno interpre...
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them [again]. Ver. 23. _He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them_] It is all one with God whether again...
_He increaseth the nations_, &c. What he had hitherto said of princes, he now applies to nations and people, whom God either increases or diminishes as he pleases. _He enlargeth the nations_ He multip...
He increaseth the nations, making them great, giving them prosperity, AND DESTROYETH THEM; HE ENLARGETH THE NATIONS, spreading them abroad, increasing their territory, AND STRAITENETH THEM AGAIN, caus...
God's Government of the World...
JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied that h...
STRAIGHTENETH: _ Heb._ leadeth in...
12-25 This is a noble discourse of Job concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of His own will, which none c...
What hitherto he said of princes, he now applies to nations and people, whom God doth either increase or diminish as he pleaseth. HE ENLARGETH THE NATIONS; he multiplies them, so that they are forced...
Job 12:23 makes H7679 nations H1471 great H7679 (H8688) destroys H6 (H8762) enlarges H7849 (H8802) nations...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the fo...
_Behold, He breaketh down._ JOB’S MAXIMS Perhaps Job uses this lofty language concerning God for two reasons. 1. To show that he could speak as grandly of the Eternal as his friends had spoken. 2....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:13 In these verses, Job asserts that God’s providential governing of the world is much more extensive than his friends realize. ⇐...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:21 HE POURS CONTEMPT ON PRINCES and MAKES THEM WANDER IN A TRACKLESS WASTE. God governs the powerful as well as the weak. LOOSENS THE BELT is a way of describing the
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
Exodus 1:20; Exodus 1:7; Isaiah 26:15; Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 51:2;...