Job 12:15
13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
16 True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
17 He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
- KJV
- Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- WEB
- Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
- ASV
- Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- DARBY
- Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
- BLB
- Behold, He restrains the waters and they dry up, and He sends them forth and they overthrow the land.
- ÅB
- Han demmer for vannene, og de tørker bort, og han slipper dem løs, og de velter om jorden.
- OTB
- Hvis Han holder tilbake vannet, tørker de opp;
hvis Han slipper dem løs, overvelder de jorden. - B1930
- Han demmer for vannene, og de tørker bort, og han slipper dem løs, og de velter om jorden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Read in contextAmos 5:8
He 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—
Read in contextGenesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Read in contextJames 5:17–18
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
Read in contextGenesis 6:13
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Read in contextLuke 4:25
But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
Read in contextNahum 1:4
He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
Read in contextRevelation 11:6
These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
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