Job 12:2
“You really think you're special people, don't you? Obviously when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
3But I too have insights, and you're no better than me. Doesn't everyone know the things you've said?
Cross References
Job 6:24Explain this to me, and I'll be quiet. Show me where I'm wrong.
Job 11:2“So many words should be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?
Job 11:12Stupid people will become wise when wild donkeys are born tame!
Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding, so do not let them win!
Job 20:3What I hear you say insults me, but I know how to reply to you!
Job 32:7I told myself, ‘Those who are older should speak—those who are elderly 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 →