Job 27:12
Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.
Cross References
Job 6:25Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?
Job 16:3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
Job 19:2How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 21:28For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Ecclesiastes 8:14There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
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 →