Job 27:12

Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

In Context

11I will teach you through the hand of God, what the Almighty holds, and I will not conceal it.

13This is the portion of the impious man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they will receive from the Almighty.

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Cross References

Job 6:25Why have you diminished the words of truth, when there is none of you who is able to offer proof against me?

Job 16:3Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

Job 19:2How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?

Job 21:28For you say, “Where is the house of the ruler, and where are the tabernacles of the impious?”

Ecclesiastes 8:14There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are the just, to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the impious. And there are the impious, who are very secure, as though they possess the deeds of the just. But this, too, I judge to be a very great vanity.

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 →

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