Job 12:7-9 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Job 12:7-9: 12:7-9 A switch from you (plural in 12:2-3 ) to you (singular here) probably indicates that Job is directing his comments to Zophar. Summary for Job 12:7-8: 12:7-8 ask the animals ... birds ... earth ... fish: Job believed that the reason for his misery was obvious and that even nature would understand it (Prov 6:6 ). Later, God directed Job’s attention to the animal kingdom to convince Job that he did not understand (Job 38

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‏ Job 12:7-9

Summary for Job 12:7-9: 12:7-9 ^a A switch from you (plural in 12:2-3 ^b) to you (singular here) probably indicates that Job is directing his comments to Zophar.
Summary for Job 12:7-8: 12:7-8 ^c ask the animals ... birds ... earth ... fish: Job believed that the reason for his misery was obvious and that even nature would understand it (Prov 6:6 ^d). Later, God directed Job’s attention to the animal kingdom to convince Job that he did not understand (Job 38–40 ^e).
12:9 ^f from the hand of the Lord: This is the only place in the dialogues (chs 3–27 ^g; 29–37 ^h) that the Hebrew Yahweh (“the Lord”) is used. For Job, the dispute was not about who caused his misery but why it happened.