Job 12:2
Truly ye are indeed the [right kind of] people, and with you wisdom must die out.
Leeser Tanakh
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 indeed remain silent; and wherein I erred give me to understand.
Job 11:2Shall a multitude of words not be answered? and is it so that a man full of talk shall be deemed in the right?
Job 11:12And the heartless who acquireth intelligence, and him who is [like] the colt of the wild ass who is transformed into a man.
Job 17:4For thou hast concealed their heart against intelligence: therefore art thou not exalted [through them].
Job 20:3Reproof which casteth shame on me must I hear; yet out of my understanding will the spirit give me an answer.
Job 32:7I had said, Days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make wisdom known.
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 →