Job 12:3

Job 12:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
• New International Version (NIV)But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
• English Standard Version (ESV)But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
• New King James Version (NKJV)But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

Context of Job 12:3

1Then Job replied. This is what he said: 2‘You people think that you know everything. You think that there will be no wisdom after you die. But 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. 5Some people never have any troubles. They think that people who suffer are fools. If people are in trouble, they knock them down!

Job 12:3 word by word

גַּם־לִ֤י לֵבָ֨ב׀ כְּֽמוֹכֶ֗ם לֹא־נֹפֵ֣ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּ֑ם וְאֶת־מִי־אֵ֥ין כְּמוֹ־אֵֽלֶּה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Butגַּםgam · alsoH1571
• I have understandingלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• not inferiorנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• to you: yea, who knoweth not such thingsכְּמוֹkemô kâmô · likeH3644

Cross-references for Job 12:3

• Job 13:2I know as much as you do. You are no better than I am.
• Proverbs 26:4If someone asks you a silly question, do not give him a silly answer. Be careful that you do not become as silly as he is.
• 2 Corinthians 11:5Those teachers call themselves very special apostles. But I think that I am as special as they are!
• Job 6:6You cannot enjoy food that has no salt in it. The white part of an egg is not nice to eat on its own.
• Job 26:2‘Do not think that you have helped me, a weak and helpless man. Nothing that you have said makes me feel stronger.

Commentaries on Job 12:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3I am not inferior to you - I do not fall short of any of you in understanding, wisdom, learning, and experience. Who knoweth not such things as these? - All your boasted wisdom consists only in strings of proverbs which are in every person's mouth, and are no proof of wisdom and experience in them that use them.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3But I have understanding as well as you - Margin, as in the Hebrew “an heart.” The word “heart” in the Scriptures is often used to denote the understanding or mind. It seems to have been regarded as the source of that which was called life or soul. Indeed, I do not recollect a single instance in the Scriptures in which the word “head” is used, as with us, as the seat of the intellect, or where the distinction is adverted to that is so common with us…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. not inferior--not vanquished in argument and "wisdom" (Job 13:2). such things as these--such commonplace maxims as you so pompously adduce.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 12:3

• Pride
• Sarcasm
• Self-Exaltation
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• Deep
• Discover
• 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