Job 12:18 Parallel Translations
NASB: "He loosens the bond of kings And binds their loins with a girdle. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He loosens kings' belts and strips them of their pants.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
ASV: He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.
BBE: He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
DBY: He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;
ERV: He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
JPS: He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth their loins with a girdle.
WBS: He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
WEB: He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.
YLT: The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
Job 12:18 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 116:16 O LORD, surely I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid, You have loosed my bonds. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 12:18 {i} He looseth {k} the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
(i) He takes wisdom from them.
(k) He abates the humour of princes, and brings them into the subjection of others.
WES: 12:18 Looseth - He freeth them from that wherewith they bind their subjects to obedience, their power and authority, and that majesty which God stamps upon kings, to keep their people in awe. Girdeth - He reduces them to a mean and servile condition; which is thus expressed, because servants did use to gird up their garments (that after the manner of those parts were loose and long) that they might be fitter for attendance upon their masters: he not only deposes them from their thrones, but brings them into slavery.
MHC: 12:12-25 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 can resist. It were well if wise and good men, who differ about lesser things, would see how it is for their honour and comfort, and the good of others, to dwell most upon the great things in which they agree. Here are no complaints, or reflections. He gives many instances of God's powerful management of the children of men, overruling all their counsels, and overcoming all their oppositions. Having all strength and wisdom, God knows how to make use, even of those who are foolish and bad; otherwise there is so little wisdom and so little honesty in the world, that all had been in confusion and ruin long ago. These important truths were suited to convince the disputants that they were out of their depth in attempting to assign the Lord's reasons for afflicting Job; his ways are unsearchable, and his judgments past finding out. Let us remark what beautiful illustrations there are in the word of God, confirming his sovereignty, and wisdom in that sovereignty: but the highest and infinitely the most important is, that the Lord Jesus was crucified by the malice of the Jews; and who but the Lord could have known that this one event was the salvation of the world?
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