Job 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
Berean Standard Bible
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 mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.
Job 11:2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Job 11:12But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should 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 →