Darby Bible
Job 12:2
2Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall 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
1And Job answered and said, Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you! 3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these? 4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
Read all of Job 12Job 12:2 word by word
אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 12:2
- Job 6:24Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
- Job 8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
- Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
- Job 15:2Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
- Job 17:4For thou hast hidden their heart from understanding; therefore thou wilt not exalt [them].
- Job 20:3I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding.
- Job 32:7I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.
- Proverbs 28:11A rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
- Isaiah 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.
- 1 Corinthians 6:5I speak to you [to put you] to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!
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
Topics related to Job 12:2
In the dictionaries
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
Darby Bible — 1889 — Public Domain
Commentaries