Job 12:16
With Him [are] strength and wisdom, || His the deceived and deceiver.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
In Context
17Causing counselors to go away [as] a spoil, || Indeed, He makes fools of judges.
Cross References
Job 12:13With Him [are] wisdom and might, || To Him [are] counsel and understanding.
Job 13:9Is [it] good that He searches you, || If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?
Proverbs 2:6For YHWH gives wisdom, || Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.
Ezekiel 14:9And the prophet, when he is enticed, and has spoken a word—I, YHWH, have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed 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 →