Job 12:2

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 replied. This is what he said: ‘You people think that you know everything. You think that there will be no wisdom after you die. 3But I understand things as well as you. You are no better than I am. Everyone knows the things that you have been saying. 4I am a person who prayed to God and he answered me. But my friends now laugh at me. I have always lived completely in the right way. But still my friends laugh at me.

Job 12:2 word by word

אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• No doubtאׇמְנָם'omnâm · trulyH551
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• and wisdomחׇכְמָהchokmâh · wisdomH2451
• shall dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Job 12:2

• Job 6:24Teach me the truth, and I will listen carefully. Explain to me the mistakes that I have made.
• Job 8:8Think about the people who lived before us. Study the things that our ancestors learned.
• Job 11:2‘Someone must answer all these words that you have spoken. You have talked a lot, but that does not mean that you are right.
• Job 15:2‘If you were wise, you would not answer us with such silly ideas. The words that come out from inside you are only a hot wind!
• Job 17:4You have stopped my friends from thinking properly. So do not allow them to win the argument.
• Job 20:3You have said things that insult me. But now I know how to reply to you.
• Job 32:7I thought, “Older men should speak. They have lived for many years and they should share their wisdom.”
• Proverbs 28:11A rich person thinks that he knows everything. But a poor person who understands people knows what he is really like.
• Isaiah 5:21It will be very bad for people who think that they are wise. They think that they are very clever.
• 1 Corinthians 4:10We have become like fools so that we can serve Christ. But you think that you are wise because you belong to Christ. We seem like weak people, but you seem to be strong! People respect you but they insult us!
• 1 Corinthians 6:5I say this so that you will feel ashamed. There is surely a wise person in your group who could decide quarrels between yourselves.

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

• Irony
• Pride
• Sarcasm
• Self-Righteousness
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• Deep
• Discover
• Doubt
• Satan

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