איוב 12:23
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
Context
This verse from איוב Chapter 12 connects to 10 cross-references. Job sarcastically concedes his friends' wisdom before asserting that he has understanding equal to theirs. He surveys God's sovereign control over nations, counselors, priests, and kings, bringing them to ruin or exalting them at will. The chapter emphasizes divine freedom …
תרגומים נוספים
He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.
Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.
Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.
הפניות צולבות
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it …
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and …
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face …
Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far …
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, …
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the …
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, …
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was …