Job 12:3

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

In Context

2No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

4I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

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Cross References

Job 13:2What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like to him.

2 Corinthians 11:21I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold.

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 →

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