Job 12 · Verse 13

Job 12:13

With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job 12:13, King James Version

Job 12:13 in other translations

BSBWisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
WEB“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
ASVWith God is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
YLTWith Him are wisdom and might, To him are counsel and understanding.
DARBYWith him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
BBEWith him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
WebsterWith him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

What does Job 12:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. In contrast to, "with the ancient is wisdom" (Job 12:12), Job quotes a saying of the ancients which suits his argument, "with Him (God) is (the true) wisdom" (Pr 8:14); and by that "wisdom and strength" "He breaketh down," &c., as an absolute Sovereign, not allowing man to penetrate His mysteries; man's part is to bow to His unchangeable decrees (Job 1:21). The Mohammedan saying is, "if God will, and how God will."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 With him is wisdom and strength - But all these things come from God; he is the Fountain of wisdom and the Source of power. He alone can give us unerring counsel, and understanding to comprehend and act profitably by it. See on Job 12:16 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 12:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עִ֭מּוֹi.mo[are] with himH5973
חָכְמָ֣הchokh.mahwisdomH2451
וּגְבוּרָ֑הu.ge.vu.Rahand mightH1369
ל֝֗וֹlo[belong] to him
עֵצָ֥ה'e.TzahcounselH6098
וּתְבוּנָֽה\׃u.te.vu.Nahand understandingH8394

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 12:13

  • Job 36:5

    Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

  • Job 9:4

    He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

  • Proverbs 2:6-7

    For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

  • James 1:5

    If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

  • Job 28:20-28

    Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. …

  • Proverbs 8:14

    Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

  • Daniel 2:20

    Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

  • Psalms 147:5

    Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

  • Ephesians 1:11

    In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

  • Colossians 2:3

    In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  • Job 11:6

    And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:24

    But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
him. that is, God.
32:6-9
wisdom.
16; 9:4; 28:20-28; 36:5; Ps 147:5; Pr 2:6,7; Jer 10:12; Da 2:20
Lu 21:15; 1Co 1:24; Col 2:3; Jas 1:5
counsel.
Pr 8:14; Isa 40:13,14; 46:10; Ro 11:34; Eph 1:8,11

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Context

  • Job 12:12

    With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

  • Job 12:13

    With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

  • Job 12:14

    Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

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Job 12:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Con Dios está la sabiduría y la fortaleza; suyo es el consejo y la inteligencia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Avec lui est la sagesse et la force, à lui sont le conseil et l’intelligence.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Bei ihm ist Weisheit und Macht, sein ist Rat und Einsicht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Apud ipsum est sapientia et fortitudo; ipse habet consilium et intelligentiam.