SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:21
El derrama menosprecio sobre los príncipes, y enflaquece la fuerza de los esforzados.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 12:21
Verse 21. He poureth contempt upon princes ] µybydn nedibim, "those of royal extraction;" widely different from the µynhk cohanim mentioned ver. 19. Weakeneth the strength of the mighty. ] µyqypa aphikim, the compact; the well-strung together; the nervous and sinewy. Perhaps there is a reference here to the crocodile, as the same term is applied, chap. xl. 13, to the compactness of his bones: and as jyzm hpr rippah meziach, which we translate weakeneth the strength, signifies more properly looseth the girdle, as the margin has properly rendered it, the reference seems still more pointed; for it is known that "the crocodile, from the shoulders to the extremity of the tail, is covered with large square scales, disposed like parallel girdles, fifty-two in number. In the middle of each girdle are four protuberances, which become higher as they approach the end of the tail, and compose four rows." See the quotation in Parkhurst, under the word qpa aphak. What is human strength against this? We may say as the Lord said, chap. xl. 19: He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. He alone can loose the girdles of this mighty one.
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
שׁופך 8210 בוז 937 על 5921 נדיבים 5081 ומזיח 4206 אפיקים 650 רפה׃ 7503
