Job 27:12
Lo, ye — all of you — have seen, And why [is] this — ye are altogether vain?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
In Context
11I shew you by the hand of God, That which [is] with the Mighty I hide not.
Cross References
Job 6:25How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
Job 19:2Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
Job 21:28For ye say, 'Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent — The tabernacles of the wicked?'
Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also [is] vanity.
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 →