Job 27:12
Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:25How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Job 16:3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Job 19:2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 21:28For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →