Job 12:15

God's power and sovereignty

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.

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.

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
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
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Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
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Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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James 5:17–18
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
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Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
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Nahum 1:4
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
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