Job 12:2

“Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

In Context

1And Job answers and says:

3I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, || And with whom is there not like these?

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Cross References

Job 6:24Show me, and I keep silent, || And what I have erred, let me understand.

Job 11:2“Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?

Job 11:12And empty man is bold, || And man is born [as] the colt of a wild donkey.

Job 17:4For You have hidden their heart from understanding, || Therefore You do not exalt them.

Job 20:3I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:

Job 32:7I said, Days speak, || And a multitude of years 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 →

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