Job 12:13
With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
In Context
12In length of time is wisdom, and in long life knowledge.
14If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against men, who shall open?
Cross References
Job 9:4For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
Job 12:16With him are strength and power: he has knowledge and understanding.
Job 32:6And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder; wherefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.
Job 36:5But know that the Lord will not cast off an innocent man: being mighty in strength of wisdom,
Psalms 147:5He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes.
Proverbs 8:14Counsel and safety are mine: prudence is mine, and strength is mine.
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 →