SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:16
Con él está la fortaleza y la existencia; suyo es el que yerra, y el que hace errar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 12:16
Verse 16. With him is strength and wisdom ] hywtw z[ 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, hrwbgw hmkj 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. As he is self-existent, so is he self-sufficient. We have had the word tushiyah before. See the note on chap. xi. 6. The deceived and the deceiver are his. ] Some think this refers to the fall; even Satan the deceiver or beguiler, and Adam and Eve, the deceived or beguiled, are his. Satan, as this book shows, cannot act without especial permission; and man, whom the seducer thought to make his own property for ever, is claimed as the peculium or especial property of God, for the seed of the woman was then appointed to bruise the head of the serpent; and Jesus Christ has assumed the nature of man, and thus brought human nature into a state of fellowship with himself. Thus he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren; Heb. ii. 11.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-25 - This is a noble discourse of Job concerning the wisdom, power, an sovereignty of God, in ordering all the affairs of the children of men according to the counsel of His own will, which none can resist. I were well if wise and good men, who differ about lesser things, woul see how it is for their honour and comfort, and the good of others, to dwell most upon the great things in which they agree. Here are n complaints, or reflections. He gives many instances of God's powerfu management of the children of men, overruling all their counsels, an overcoming all their oppositions. Having all strength and wisdom, God knows how to make use, even of those who are foolish and bad; otherwis there is so little wisdom and so little honesty in the world, that all had been in confusion and ruin long ago. These important truths wer suited to convince the disputants that they were out of their depth in attempting to assign the Lord's reasons for afflicting Job; his way are unsearchable, and his judgments past finding out. Let us remar what beautiful illustrations there are in the word of God, confirmin his sovereignty, and wisdom in that sovereignty: but the highest an infinitely the most important is, that the Lord Jesus was crucified by the malice of the Jews; and who but the Lord could have known that thi one event was the salvation of the world __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
עמו 5973 עז 5797 ותושׁיה 8454 לו שׁגג 7683 ומשׁגה׃ 7686
