Job 12:2
“No doubt you are the people; 1 wisdom will die with you. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
1Then Job answered and said, 1
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; 1 make me understand where I have been wrong. 1
Job 11:2“Should not such a multitude of words be answered? 1 Should this man, so full of talk, be believed? 1
Job 11:12But foolish people have no understanding; 1 they will get it when a wild donkey gives birth to a man. 1
Job 17:4For you, God, have kept their hearts from understanding; 1 therefore, you will not exalt them over me. 1
Job 20:3I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, 1 but a spirit from my understanding answers me. 1
Job 32:7I said, “Length of days should speak; 1 a multitude of years should teach 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 →