Job 12:2
No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
1And Job made answer and said,
Cross References
Job 6:24Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.
Job 11:2Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
Job 11:12And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
Job 17:4You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
Job 20:3I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
Job 32:7I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out 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 →