Job 12

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

  • 12:5 Those at ease look with contempt on disaster; they think it is ready for those whose feet are slipping. 1
  • 12:11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food? 1
  • 12:18 He loosens the bonds that kings put on others and binds a captive's cloth around their own waists. 1
  • 12:22 He reveals deep things from the darkness and brings the deepest darkness into the light. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fourth Stage cites Job 12:22

    …discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.” Job 12:22. Now was Christian much affected with this deliverance from all the dangers of his…

  2. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Sixth Stage cites Job 12:5

    …ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.” Job 12:5. Mr. Great-Heart: But, brother, said Mr. Great-Heart, I have it in commission to comfort…

  3. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IV. Gracious affections do arise from the mind's being enlightened, richly and spiritually to understand or apprehend divine things cites Job 12:11

    …actions, as well as a natural beauty in countenances and sounds, and sweetness in food: Job 12:11, “Doth not the ear try words, and the mouth taste his meat?” When a holy and amiable…

  4. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 20 — Of Civil Government cites Job. 12:18

    …28:2). Job says—“He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle” (Job. 12:18). This being confessed, nothing remains for us but to serve and live. There is in…