Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

This is a noble discourse of Job's concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist.

Commenting on Job 12:12-25

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up,.... Or "lays a restraint in" or "on the waters" (s); either in the ocean, as he did at the creation, when he gathered the waters that were upon the face of the earth into one place, and restrained them there, even in the decreed place he broke up for them, called the sea, and set bars...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed @jfbcommentary

shutteth up-- (Isa 22:22). Job refers to Zophar's "shut up" (Job 11:10).