God Who Brings Secrets To Light And Who Destroys Great Nations And Their Leaders (Job 12:22-25)
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Paul MacDonald RN MA Dipl
Job 12:22-25 NASB | He Reveals Mysteries From The Darkness And Brings The Deep Darkness Into Light
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Job 12:22
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings utter darkness into the light, ie. the "most secret" and "crafty counsels" of princes, which are contrived and carried on in the dark.
Nothing Secret Before God's Eyes
"There is nothing so secret which God cannot, if he choose, reveal. Nor is there anything hid which he cannot make known. Dark, murderous schemes, on which lies a shadow as of death, which men plan in secret, and keep hidden in their inmost thoughts, he can, and often does, cause to be brought to light and made manifest in the sight of all.
Eyes of God Everywhere
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Every such scheme, however carefully guarded and concealed, shall be one day made know. Many are laid bare even in the lifetime of their devisers.
God Knows And Sees Everything
There are no things planned by men that God does not know. They may have planned it in some secret place, but God knows all of their plans. Even plots to kill someone are known of God.
Job 12:23
He makes Nations Great, and destroys them; he enlarges Nations, and disperses them
In this discourse of God's wonderful works, Job shows that whatever is done in this world both in the order and change of things, is by God's will and appointment. In which he declares that he thinks well of God, and is able to set forth his power in words as they that reasoned against him were. What before he said of princes, he now applies to Nations and People, whom God does either increase or diminish just as he pleases.
"He increased the Nations": He multiplies them, so that they are forced to send forth colonies into other lands.. He can also leads them in, or bring them back, into their own land, and confines them there.
Israel became almost three million people while they were slaves in Egypt. Just over seventy people went into Egypt and almost three million came out. This same three million were reduced to just a remnant by God for their unfaithfulness.
Job 12:24
He deprives the Leaders of the Earth of their reason; he makes them wander in a trackless waste.
The word heart here evidently means Mind, Intelligence, and Wisdom (see the notes at Job 12:3).
"Of the Chief of the People": Hebrew "Heads of the people;" that is, of the Rulers of the Earth. The meaning is, that he leaves them to "infatuated" and "distracted" counsels. By withdrawing from them, he has power to frustrate their plans, and to leave them to an entire lack of wisdom (Job 12:17).
Nobody Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring (Proverbs 27:1)
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God Catches The Crafty Out With Their Own Craftiness (Job 5:13-14)
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"And makes them to wander in a wilderness": They are like persons in a vast waste of pathless sands without a waymark, a guide, or a path. The perplexity and confusion of the great ones of the earth could not be more strikingly represented than by the condition of such a lost traveler.
When the leaders of the people is filled with confusion and wanders in the wilderness, they wander around as sheep without a shepherd.
Job 12:25
They grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
Like blind men, as the men of Sodom, when they were struck with blindness. Or "they grope", or "feel the dark, and not light", as the Targum. As the Egyptian did when such gross darkness was upon them as might be felt.
"And he makes them to stagger like a drunken man": That has lost his sight, his senses, and his feet, and knows not where he is, which way to go, or how to keep on his legs. But reels to and fro, and is at the utmost loss what to do. All this is said of the heads or chief of the people, in consequence of their hearts being taken away, and so left destitute of wisdom and strength.
God Who Is The Creator of Adversity, Calamity And Evil (Isaiah 45:7)
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Those who walk in darkness have no direction in their lives.
Paul MacDonald RN MA Dipl ©
