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Selected Verse: Job 12:22 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 12:22 |
Strong Concordance |
He discovereth [01540] deep things [06013] out of darkness [02822], and bringeth out [03318] to light [0216] the shadow of death [06757]. |
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King James |
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Dan 2:22). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He discovereth deep thirsts out of darkness - That is, God discloses truths which are wholly beyond the power of man to discover - truths that seem to be hidden in profound night. This may refer either to the revelation which God was believed to have furnished, or to his power of bringing out the most secret thoughts and purposes, or to his power of predicting future events by bringing them out of darkness to the clear light of day, or to his power of detecting plots, intrigues, and conspiracies.
And bringeth out to light the shadow of death - On the meaning of the word rendered "shadow of death," see the notes at Job 3:5. It here denotes whatever is dark or obscure. It is rather a favorite expression with the author of this poem (see Job 10:22; Job 16:16; Job 24:17; Job 34:22; Job 38:17), though it occurs elsewhere in the Scriptures. The deepest darkness, the obscurest night, are represented by it; and the idea is, that even from the most dark and impenetrable regions God could bring out light and truth. All is naked and open to the mind of God. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness,
And bringeth out to light the shadow of death;
23 He giveth prosperity to nations and then destroyeth them,
Increase of territory to nations and then carrieth them away;
24 He taketh away the understanding of the chief people of the land,
And maketh them to wander in a trackless wilderness;
25 They grope in darkness without light,
He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
The meaning of Job 12:22 in this connection can only be, that there is nothing so finely spun out that God cannot make it visible. All secret plans of the wicked, all secret sins, and the deeds of the evil-doer though veiled in deep darkness, He bringeth before the tribunal of the world. The form of writing given by the Masora is עמוּקות with koph raphatum, consequently plur. from עמוּק, like ערוּמים, עצוּמים from ערוּם, עצוּם, not from עמק.
(Note: Kimchi in his Wrterbuch adopts the form עמקּות, but gives Abulwalid as an authority for the lengthened form, which, according to the Masora on Lev 13:3, Lev 13:25, is the traditional. The two exceptions where the form occurs with a long vowel are Pro 23:27 and this passage.)
The lxx translates משגיא πλανῶν, as it is also explained in several Midrash-passages, but only by a few Jewish expositors (Jachja, Alschech) by מטעה. The word, however, is not משׁגּיא, but משׂגּיא with ש sinistrum, after which in Midrash Esther it is explained by מגדיל; and Hirzel correctly interprets it of upward growth (Jerome after the Targ. unsuitably, multiplicat), and שׁטח, on the other hand, of growth in extent. The latter word is falsely explained by the Targ. in the sense of expandere rete, and Abenezra also falsely explains: He scatters nations, and brings them to their original peace. The verb שׁטח is here connected with ל, as הפתּה (Gen 9:27); both signify to make a wider and longer space for any one, used here of the ground where they dwell and rule. The opposite, in an unpropitious sense, is הנחה, which is used here, as Kg2 18:11, in a similar sense with הגלה (abducere, i.e., in servitutem). We have intentionally translated גוים nations, עם people; for גּוי, as we shall show elsewhere, is the mass held together by the ties of a common origin, language, and country; (עם) עם, the people bound together by unity of government, whose membra praecipua are consequently called העם ראשׁי. הארץ is, in this connection, the country, although elsewhere, as Isa 24:4, comp. Job 42:5, הארץ עם signifies also the people of the earth or mankind; for the Hebrew language expresses a country as a portion of the earth, and the earth as a whole, by the same name. Job dwells longer on this tragic picture, how God makes the star of the prosperity of these chiefs to set in mad and blind self-destruction, according to the proverb, quem Deus perdere vult prius dementat. This description seems to be echoed in many points in Isaiah, especially in the oracle on Egypt, Job 19 (e.g., כּשּׁכּור, Job 19:14). The connection ברך לא בתהו is not genitival; but דרך לא is either an adverbial clause appended to the verb, as חקר לא, Job 34:24, בנים לא, Ch1 2:30, Ch1 2:32, or, which we prefer as being more natural, and on account of the position of the words, a virtual adjective: in a trackless waste, as אישׁ לא, Job 38:26; עבות לא, Sa2 23:4 (Olsh.).
Job here takes up the tone of Eliphaz (comp. Job 5:13.). Intentionally he is made to excel the friends in a recognition of the absolute majesty of God. He is not less cognizant of it than they. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Darkness - The most secret counsels of princes, which are contrived and carried on in the dark. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He discovereth deep things out of darkness - This may refer either to God's works in the great deep, or to the plots and stratagems of wicked men, conspiracies that were deeply laid, well digested, and about to be produced into existence, when death, whose shadow had hitherto concealed them, is to glut himself with carnage. |
22 He revealeth [01541] the deep [05994] and secret things [05642]: he knoweth [03046] what [04101] is in the darkness [02816], and the light [05094] dwelleth [08271] with him [05974].
17 Have the gates [08179] of death [04194] been opened [01540] unto thee? or hast thou seen [07200] the doors [08179] of the shadow of death [06757]?
22 There is no darkness [02822], nor shadow of death [06757], where the workers [06466] of iniquity [0205] may hide [05641] themselves.
17 For the morning [01242] is to them even as [03162] the shadow of death [06757]: if one know [05234] them, they are in the terrors [01091] of the shadow of death [06757].
16 My face [06440] is foul [02560] with weeping [01065], and on my eyelids [06079] is the shadow of death [06757];
22 A land [0776] of darkness [05890], as darkness [0652] itself; and of the shadow of death [06757], without any order [05468], and where the light [03313] is as darkness [0652].
5 Let darkness [02822] and the shadow of death [06757] stain [01350] it; let a cloud [06053] dwell [07931] upon it; let the blackness [03650] of the day [03117] terrify [01204] it.
13 He taketh [03920] the wise [02450] in their own craftiness [06193]: and the counsel [06098] of the froward [06617] is carried headlong [04116].
4 And he shall be as the light [0216] of the morning [01242], when the sun [08121] riseth [02224], even a morning [01242] without [03808] clouds [05645]; as the tender grass [01877] springing out of the earth [0776] by clear shining [05051] after rain [04306].
26 To cause it to rain [04305] on the earth [0776], where no man [0376] is; on the wilderness [04057], wherein there is no man [0120];
32 And the sons [01121] of Jada [03047] the brother [0251] of Shammai [08060]; Jether [03500], and Jonathan [03129]: and Jether [03500] died [04191] without children [01121].
30 And the sons [01121] of Nadab [05070]; Seled [05540], and Appaim [0649]: but Seled [05540] died [04191] without children [01121].
24 He shall break in pieces [07489] mighty men [03524] without number [02714], and set [05975] others [0312] in their stead.
14 My kinsfolk [07138] have failed [02308], and my familiar friends [03045] have forgotten [07911] me.
5 I have heard [08085] of thee by the hearing [08088] of the ear [0241]: but now mine eye [05869] seeth [07200] thee.
4 The earth [0776] mourneth [056] and fadeth away [05034], the world [08398] languisheth [0535] and fadeth away [05034], the haughty [04791] people [05971] of the earth [0776] do languish [0535].
11 And the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] did carry away [01540] Israel [03478] unto Assyria [0804], and put [05148] them in Halah [02477] and in Habor [02249] by the river [05104] of Gozan [01470], and in the cities [05892] of the Medes [04074]:
27 God [0430] shall enlarge [06601] Japheth [03315], and he shall dwell [07931] in the tents [0168] of Shem [08035]; and Canaan [03667] shall be his servant [05650].
27 For a whore [02181] is a deep [06013] ditch [07745]; and a strange woman [05237] is a narrow [06862] pit [0875].
25 Then the priest [03548] shall look [07200] upon it: and, behold, if the hair [08181] in the bright spot [0934] be turned [02015] white [03836], and it be in sight [04758] deeper [06013] than the skin [05785]; it is a leprosy [06883] broken [06524] out of the burning [04348]: wherefore the priest [03548] shall pronounce him unclean [02930]: it is the plague [05061] of leprosy [06883].
3 And the priest [03548] shall look [07200] on the plague [05061] in the skin [05785] of the flesh [01320]: and when the hair [08181] in the plague [05061] is turned [02015] white [03836], and the plague [05061] in sight [04758] be deeper [06013] than the skin [05785] of his flesh [01320], it is a plague [05061] of leprosy [06883]: and the priest [03548] shall look [07200] on him, and pronounce him unclean [02930].
22 He discovereth [01540] deep things [06013] out of darkness [02822], and bringeth out [03318] to light [0216] the shadow of death [06757].