Job 12:2
Are you, therefore, alone among men, and will wisdom die with you?
Catholic Public Domain 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 silent, and if by chance I have been ignorant of anything, instruct me.
Job 11:2Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?
Job 11:12A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass’s colt.
Job 17:4You have set their heart far from discipline; therefore, they will not be praised.
Job 20:3The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
Job 32:7For I had hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would 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 →