Job 27:12
Behold, you—all of you—have seen, || And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
In Context
11I show you by the hand of God, || That which [is] with the Mighty I do not hide.
Cross References
Job 6:25How powerful have been upright sayings, || And what reproof from you reproves?
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Job 19:2“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?
Job 21:28For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?
Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a vanity that has been done on the earth, that there are righteous ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this [is] also vanity.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →