| Job 12:12 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "Wisdom is with the ancient one. The one who has had many days has insight. (GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. |
| ASV: | With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding. |
| BBE: | Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge. |
| DBY: | With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. |
| ERV: | With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. |
| JPS: | Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days?-- |
| WBS: | With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. |
| WEB: | With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding. |
| YLT: | With the very aged is wisdom, And with length of days understanding. |
| Job 12:12 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 15:10 "Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
Job 32:7 "I thought age should speak, And increased years should teach wisdom. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 12:12 With the {g} ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
(g) Though men by age and continuance of time attain wisdom, yet it is not comparable to God's wisdom, nor able to comprehend his judgments, in which he answers to that which was alleged, Job 8:8. |
| WES: | 12:12 Wisdom - These words contain a concession of what Bildad had said, chap.8:8,9, and a joining with him in that appeal; but withal, an intimation that this wisdom was but imperfect, and liable to many mistakes; and indeed mere ignorance and folly, if compared with the Divine wisdom, and therefore that antiquity ought not to be received against the truths of the most wise God. |
| 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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