Job 12 (WEB)

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LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 12 (WEB)

1Then Job answered,

2“No doubt, but you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you.

3But I have understanding as well as you;

I am not inferior to you.

Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor,

I, who called on God, and he answered.

The just, the blameless man is a joke.

5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.

It is ready for them whose foot slips.

6The tents of robbers prosper.

Those who provoke God are secure,

who carry their god in their hands.

7“But ask the animals now, and they will teach you;

the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.

The fish of the sea will declare to you.

9Who doesn’t know that in all these,

Yahweh’s hand has done this,

10in whose hand is the life of every living thing,

and the breath of all mankind?

11Doesn’t the ear try words,

even as the palate tastes its food?

12With aged men is wisdom,

in length of days understanding.

13“With God is wisdom and might.

He has counsel and understanding.

14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again.

He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up.

Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

16With him is strength and wisdom.

The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17He leads counselors away stripped.

He makes judges fools.

18He loosens the bond of kings.

He binds their waist with a belt.

19He leads priests away stripped,

and overthrows the mighty.

20He removes the speech of those who are trusted,

and takes away the understanding of the elders.

21He pours contempt on princes,

and loosens the belt of the strong.

22He uncovers deep things out of darkness,

and brings out to light the shadow of death.

23He increases the nations, and he destroys them.

He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth,

and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

25They grope in the dark without light.

He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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