Job 12:2
Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
Darby Translation
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 hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
Job 11:12Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.
Job 17:4For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
Job 20:3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
Job 32:7I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years 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 →