Job 12:2
So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
3But I also have a heart as well as you.
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.
Job 11:2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman.
Job 11:12But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert.
Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.
Job 20:3I will hear my shameful reproach; and the spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job 32:7And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know 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 →