Job 12:2

Doubtless then ye are the people, 1 and chochmah shall die with you! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1And Iyov answered and said, 1

3But I have levav (understanding) as well as you; 1 I am not inferior to you; 1 yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 1

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Cross References

Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue, 1 and cause me to have binah wherein I have erred. 1

Job 11:2Should not the multitude of devarim be answered? 1 And should an ish full of talk yitzdak (be justified)? 1

Job 11:12But before a witless ish can become wise, 1 a colt of a pereh (wild donkey) would be born an adam! 1

Job 17:4For Thou hast hid their lev from seichel; 1 therefore shalt Thou not exalt them. 1

Job 20:3I hear the musar that insults me, 1 and the ruach of my understanding causeth me to answer. 1

Job 32:7I said, Yamim should speak, 1 and multitude of shanim should teach chochmah. 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 →

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