Job 12:3

But I have understanding as well as you; 1 I am not inferior to you. 1 Indeed, who does not know such things as these? 1

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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

In Context

2“No doubt you are the people; 1 wisdom will die with you. 1

4I am something for my neighbor to laugh at— 1 I, one who called on God and who was answered by him! 1 I, a just and blameless man—I am now something to laugh at. 1

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Cross References

Job 13:2What you know, the same I also know; 1 I am not inferior to you. 1

Proverbs 26:4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, 1 or you will become like him. 1

2 Corinthians 11:21I will say to our shame that we were too weak to do that. Yet if anyone boasts—I am speaking like a fool—I too will boast.

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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