Job 12:2
Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant in any thing, instruct me.
Job 11:2Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?
Job 11:12A vain man is lifted up into pride, and thinketh himself born free like a wild ass's colt.
Job 17:4Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.
Job 20:3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
Job 32:7For I 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 →