Job 12:16
With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
In Context
17He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes judges fools.
Cross References
Job 12:13With [God] is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
Proverbs 2:6For LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth [is] knowledge and understanding.
Ezekiel 14:9And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, LORD, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:13-25
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. 13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. 18 He looseth… Read the whole commentary →