Job 12:3

I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

In Context

2Truly ye are indeed the [right kind of] people, and with you wisdom must die out.

4I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: [yea,] a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.

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Cross References

Job 13:2As much as ye know, do I also know: I do not fall short compared with you.

Proverbs 26:4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest thou also become equal unto him.

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 →

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