Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.
Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:12But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.
Job 17:4For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt [them].
Job 20:3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 32:7I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:2-6
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 And Job answered and said, 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. The reproofs Job here gives to his friends,… Read the whole commentary →