Job 27:12

Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

In Context

11I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.

13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of tyrants, which they shall receiue of the Almightie.

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Cross References

Job 6:25Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?

Job 16:3Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

Job 19:2Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

Job 21:28For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?

Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a vanitie, which is done vpon the earth, that there be righteous men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the wicked: and there be wicked men to whom it commeth according to the worke of the iust: I thought also that this is vanitie.

Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23

Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →

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