Job 12:22
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
In Context
21He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.
23He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:12But one of his servants replied, “No one, my lord the king. For Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.”
Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 28:20From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Psalms 139:12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
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 →