With him is wisdom and strength i. e. with God, himbeing emphatic. There is no antithesis however between His wisdom and that of the aged referred to Job 12:12. The passage that follows to the end of the chapter describes God's power and wisdom as their operations had been observed by men, though naturally the picture receives its colour from the state of Job's mind. "Strength" is rather might or power to execute what wisdom devises. These attributes of God's confound and bring to nought everything bearing the same name among men.

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