Job 12:2
No doubt ye are the whole people! And wisdom will die with you!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
Cross References
Job 6:24Convince me, and I will hold my peace; Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 11:2Shall not the multitude of words receive an answer? Shall the man of words be justified?
Job 11:12But vain man is without understanding; Yea, man is born a wild ass's colt.
Job 17:4Behold, thou hast blinded their understanding; Therefore thou wilt not suffer them to prevail.
Job 20:3I have heard my shameful rebuke; And the spirit, from my understanding, answereth for me.
Job 32:7I said, “Days should speak, And the multitude of years should 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 →