Job 12:2
So then ye alone are men, 1 And wisdom shall die with you? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
3But I also have a heart as well as you. 1
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach ye me, and I will be silent: 1 If in anything I have erred, tell me. 1
Job 11:2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: 1 Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? 1 Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 1
Job 11:12But man vainly buoys himself up with words; 1 And a mortal born of woman is like an ass of the desert. 1
Job 17:4For thou hast hidden their heart from wisdom; 1 Therefore thou shalt not exalt them. 1
Job 20:3I will hear my shameful reproach; 1 And the spirit of my understanding answers me. 1
Job 32:7And I said, It is not time that speaks, 1 Though in many years men know wisdom: 1
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 →