The Meaning of Job 12:16 Explained

Job 12:16

KJV: With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

YLT: With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

Darby: With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

ASV: With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 12:16?

MEANING: What does Job 12:16 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 12:16 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 12:16?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

With him [is] strength  and wisdom:  the deceived  and the deceiver  [are] his. 

What does Job 12:16 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 12:1-25 - "god's Paths In Deep Waters"
Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his friends mocked at him so contemptuously. He says that they remind him of those who are glad enough of a torch when their foot is slipping in the dark, but cast it aside when they reach their quarters, Job 12:5.
Those who rob are often the most prosperous, Job 12:6, and nature teaches that the animals and plants which are most sturdy in their self-assertion are most secure. Is not the vulture more secure than the dove, the lion than the ox, the shark than the dolphin, the rose than the thorn which tears it? In all such cases you cannot explain the mystery except by referring it to the will of God, whose reasons are past finding out. Similar mysteries beset human life.
Job still further illustrates his point from human life, showing that the lives of counselors, judges, kings, priests, princes, and elders are exposed to the same apparent anomalies and inequalities of treatment. We know, however, that suffering is purifying to the soul, and often redemptive, as Christ's was, for others. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 12

1  Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him
7  He acknowledges the doctrine of God's omnipotence

What do the individual words in Job 12:16 mean?

With Him [are] strength and prudence [are] His the deceived and the deceiver
עִ֭מּוֹ עֹ֣ז וְתֽוּשִׁיָּ֑ה‪‬ ל֝֗וֹ שֹׁגֵ֥ג וּמַשְׁגֶּֽה

עִ֭מּוֹ  With  Him  [are] 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: עִם  
Sense: with.
עֹ֣ז  strength 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: עֹז  
Sense: might, strength.
וְתֽוּשִׁיָּ֑ה‪‬  and  prudence 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: תּוּשִׁיָּה  
Sense: wisdom, sound knowledge, success, sound or efficient wisdom, abiding success.
ל֝֗וֹ  [are]  His 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
שֹׁגֵ֥ג  the  deceived 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: בְּשַׁגַּם 
Sense: to go astray, err, commit sin or error.
וּמַשְׁגֶּֽה  and  the  deceiver 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular
Root: שָׁגָה  
Sense: to go astray, stray, err.

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