Job 12:16
True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
BSB
ASV
With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
KJV
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
With him is strength and wisdom - עז ותושיה oz vethushiyah, strength and sufficiency. Strength or power, springing from an exhaustless and infinite source of potency. In the thirteenth verse it is said, With him is wisdom and strength; but the expressions are not the same, חכמה וגבורה chochmah ugeburah, intelligence and fortitude, or strength in action, the wisdom ever guiding the exertions of power; but here is strength or power in essence, and an eternal potentiality. With him is every excellence, in potentia and in esse. He borrows nothing, he derives nothing.
He governs the deceiver and sets bounds to his deceits, how far they shall extend; he also over-rules all this to his own glory, and the accomplishment of his righteous designs of trying the good, and punishing wicked men, by giving them up to believe lies. Yet God is not the author of any error or sin, but only the wise and holy governor of it.
When Jacob by a fraud got the blessing the design of God's grace was served; when Ahab was drawn by a false prophecy into an expedition that was his ruin the design of God's justice was served; and in both the deceived and the deceiver were at his disposal.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
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No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will…
I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the…
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
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Job 12:13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
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God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.