Job 12:2
In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
In Context
1Then Iob answered, and sayde,
Cross References
Job 6:24Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: and cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.
Job 11:2Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
Job 11:12Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
Job 17:4For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.
Job 20:3I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
Job 32:7For I said, The dayes shall speake, and the multitude of yeeres shall teach wisedome.
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 →