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 delight in the Almighty? Will he call on God at all times? 11I will teach you about God’s power. I will not conceal what the Almighty has planned. All of you have seen this for yourselves, why do you keep up this empty talk? 13This is a wicked man’s lot from God, the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty. 14Even if his children increase, they are destined for the sword; his descendants will never have enough food.

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 now is the nobleman’s house?” and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”
• Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: The righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands. People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.
• Job 6:25How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove?
• Job 13:4You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers.
• Job 16:3Is there no end to your empty words? What provokes you that you continue testifying?
• Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
• Job 19:2How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
• Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
• Job 26:2How you have helped the powerless and delivered the arm that is weak!

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