Job 12:9

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

⁶ The tents of robbers prosper, Those who provoke God are secure; Who carry their God in their hands. ⁷ "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; The fish of the sea shall declare to you. ⁹ Who doesn't know that in all these, The hand of Yahweh has done this, ¹⁰ In whose hand is the life of every living thing, The breath of all mankind? ¹¹ Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Job 12:3, Acts 19:35

the hand: Job 22:18, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, 1 Samuel 2:7, Jeremiah 27:5, Jeremiah 27:6, Daniel 9:17, Daniel 5:18, Romans 11:36, James 2:5-7

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:1 - Thus Numbers 26:51 - General Job 13:1 - Lo Job 21:16 - Lo Psalms 17:14 - belly Isaiah 41:20 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

Genesis 12:14
It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 13:1
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

Genesis 13:3
He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 24:62
Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For he lived in the land of the South.

Psalms 105:13
They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who knoweth not in all these,.... Or "by" or "from all these" o creatures; what man is there so stupid and senseless, that does not discern, or cannot learn, even from irrational creatures, the above things, even what Zophar had discoursed concerning God and his perfections, his power, wisdom and providence? for, by the things that are made, the invisible things of God are clearly seen and understood, even his eternal power and Godhead, Romans 1:20; particularly it may be known by these, and who is it that does not know thereby,

that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? made this visible world, and all things in it, to which Job then pointed as it were with his finger, meaning the heavens, earth, and sea, and all that in them are, which were all created by him: hence he is called the Former and Maker of all things; and which are all the works of his hand, that is, of his power, which is meant by his hand, that being the instrument of action. This is the only place where the word "Jehovah" is used in this book by the disputants.

o בכל אלה "ex omnibus istis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis "per omnia haec", Cocceius; so Broughton.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who knoweth not in all these - Who cannot see in all these the proofs of the same divine and sovereign agency? Who cannot see the hand of the same God and the same great principles of administration? The meaning of Job is, that the position which he defends is so plain, that it may be learned from the very earth and the lowest orders of animals which God has made.

That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this - In this place the original word is יהוה y^ehovâh. On the meaning of the word see the notes at Isaiah 1:2. The Chaldee also renders it here יה yâhh. It is remarkable that this is the only place where the name yahweh occurs in poetical parts of the book of Job, in the printed editions. In Job 28:28, yahweh is found in some manuscripts, though the word “Adonai” is in the printed copies. Eichhorn, Einleit. section 644, Note. In Job 12:9, the word yahweh, though found in the printed editions, is missing in nine ancient manuscripts. Dr. John P. Wilson on the “Hope of Immortality,” p. 57. The word yahweh constantly occurs in the historical parts of the book. On the argument derived from this, in regard to the antiquity of the Book of Job, see the introduction, Section 4.