Job 27:12

Job 27:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
• New International Version (NIV)You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?

Context of Job 27:12

10Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? 11I will teach you regarding the hand (power) of God; I will not conceal what is with the Almighty [God’s actual treatment of the wicked]. Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you act vainly and foolishly [cherishing worthless concepts]? 13“This [which I am about to explain] is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the inheritance which tyrants and oppressors receive from the Almighty: 14Though his children are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not have sufficient bread.

Job 27:12 word by word

הֵן־אַתֶּ֣ם כֻּלְּכֶ֣ם חֲזִיתֶ֑ם וְלָמָּה־זֶּ֝֗ה הֶ֣בֶל תֶּהְבָּֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Behold, all ye yourselves have seenחָזָהchâzâh · to seeH2372
• why then are ye thus altogetherהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892
• vainהָבַלhâbal · to become vainH1891

Cross-references for Job 27:12

• Job 21:28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble man? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wicked?’
• Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a meaningless and futile thing which is done on the earth: that is, there are righteous men whose gain is as though they were evil, and evil men whose gain is as though they were righteous. I say that this too is futility (meaningless, vain).
• Ecclesiastes 9:1For I have taken all this to heart, exploring and examining it all, how the righteous (those in right standing with God) and the wise and their deeds are in the hands of God. No man knows whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.
• Job 6:25How painful are words of honesty. But what does your argument prove?
• Job 13:4But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully]; You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.
• Job 16:3Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind? Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?
• Job 17:2Surely there are mockers and mockery with me, And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
• Job 19:2“How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
• Job 21:3Bear with me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, you may [continue to] mock [me].
• Job 26:2“What a help you are to the weak (powerless)! How you have saved the arm that is without strength!

Commentaries on Job 27:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Ye yourselves have seen it - Your own experience and observation have shown you that the righteous are frequently in affliction, and the wicked in affluence. Why then are ye thus altogether vain? - The original is very emphatical: תהבלו הבל hebel tehbalu, and well expressed by Mr. Good: "Why then should ye thus babble babblings!" It our language would allow it, we might say vanitize vanity.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it - You have had an opportunity of tracing the proofs of the wisdom of God in his works. Why then are ye thus altogether vain - Why is it that you maintain such opinions - that you evince no more knowledge of his government and plans - that you argue so inconclusively about him and his administration! Why, since you have had an opportunity of observing the course of events, do you maintain that suffering is necessarily…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-23Verses 11-23 Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-23Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-2311-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer Zophar's opinion, as stated by himself? The…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 27:12

• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Deceit
• Heap
• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings