Job 12:15
What meaning of the job 12:15 in the Bible?
What does Job 12:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
What does Job 12:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth."
Verse Job 12:15. _HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS_] This is, I think, an allusion to the _third_ day's work of the creation, Genesis 1:9: _And God said, Let the waters be gathered together unto one_ _place,...
HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS - From the clouds and springs. He has control over the rains and the fountains; and when these are withheld, rivers and lakes become dry. The Syriac renders this, - “if he re...
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 (Job 13:14) 5. The brevity a...
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...
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...
HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS— This seems to refer to the universal deluge; as the latter part of the next verse probably alludes to the fall....
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...
_BEHOLD, HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS, AND THEY DRY UP: ALSO HE SENDETH THEM OUT, AND THEY OVERTURN THE EARTH._ Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also he sendeth them out, and they ove...
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 wis...
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...
הֵ֤ן יַעְצֹ֣ר בַּ † מַּ֣יִם וְ יִבָ֑שׁוּ וִֽ֝ ישַׁלְּחֵ֗ם וְ יַ֖הַפְכוּ אָֽרֶץ׃...
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...
(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...
BEHOLD, HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS, AND THEY DRY UP,.... Or "lays a restraint in" or "on the waters" s; either in the ocean, as he did at the creation, when he gathered the waters that were upon the fa...
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. Ver. 15. _Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up_] He not only, when he pleaseth...
_He withholdeth the waters_ Which are reserved in the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth; _and they dry up_ Namely, the waters upon the earth, springs, brooks, and rivers dry up, as after t...
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...
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...
HE WITHHOLDETH THE WATERS; which are reserved in the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth. THEY DRY UP, i.e. the waters upon the earth, ponds, and springs, and brooks, and rivers....
Job 12:15 withholds H6113 (H8799) waters H4325 up H3001 (H8799) out H7971 (H8762) overwhelm H2015 (H8799) earth H776 Behold - Job 12:10; Genesis 8:1-2; 1 Kings 8:35-36, 1 Kings 17:1;...
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 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
_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 firs...
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...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 8:35; 1 Kings 8:36; Amos 5:8; Genesis 6:13; Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:11; Genesis 7:23; Genesis 8:1; Genesis 8:2;...
The waters — Which are reserved its the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth. They — The waters upon the earth, springs, and brooks, and rivers. As at the time of the general deluge, to which...