Job 12:3

But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

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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 you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

4It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

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Cross References

Job 13:2The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

Proverbs 26:4Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

2 Corinthians 11:21I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

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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