Christian Standard Bible
Job 12:2
2No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
Job 12:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
- New International Version (NIV)“Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
- English Standard Version (ESV)"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!
Context of Job 12:2
1Then Job answered: No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you! 3But I also have a mind like you; I am not inferior to you. Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about? 4I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.
Read all of Job 12Job 12:2 word by word
אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 12:2
- Job 6:24Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand what I did wrong.
- Job 8:8For ask the previous generation, and pay attention to what their ancestors discovered,
- Job 11:2Should this abundance of words go unanswered and such a talker be acquitted?
- Job 15:2Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not honor them.
- Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply.
- Job 32:7I thought that age should speak and maturity should teach wisdom.
- Proverbs 28:11A rich person is wise in his own eyes, but a poor one who has discernment sees through him.
- Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who consider themselves wise and judge themselves clever.
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored!
- 1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between fellow believers?
Commentaries on Job 12:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2No doubt but ye are the people - Doubtless ye are the wisest men in the world; all wisdom is concentrated in you; and when ye die, there will no more be found on the face of the earth! This is a strong irony.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2No doubt but ye are the people - That is, the only wise people. You have engrossed all the wisdom of the world, and all else are to be regarded as fools. This is evidently the language of severe sarcasm; and it shows a spirit fretted and chafed by their reproaches. Job felt contempt for their reasoning. and meant to intimate that their maxims, on which they placed so much reliance, were common-place, and such as every one was familar with. And wisdom…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-14FIRST SERIES. Job 12:1-14:22. Job's Reply to Zophar 2. wisdom shall die with you--Ironical, as if all the wisdom in the world was concentrated in them and would expire when they expired. Wisdom makes "a people:" a foolish nation is "not a people" (Ro 10:19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 12
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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