Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be accounted right?
Job 11:12But an empty man will get understanding, when a wild ass's colt is born a man.
Job 17:4For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
Job 20:3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, but out of my understanding my spirit answereth me.
Job 32:7I said: 'Days should speak, and multitude of 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 →