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

10People like that are not happy that Almighty God is their friend. They do not like to pray to him all the time. 11I will teach you about the power of Almighty God. I will explain to you what he is thinking. You yourselves have all seen what God has done. So you should stop saying all these useless things! 13I will tell you what Almighty God does to wicked people. He punishes cruel people as they deserve. 14Wicked people may have many children, but they will die in war. Their children will never have enough food to eat.

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 21:28You say, “You see that the rich person no longer has a house. Wicked people no longer have homes to live in.”
• Ecclesiastes 8:14But this is something else that is difficult to understand: Sometimes righteous people suffer in the way the wicked people deserve. And sometimes wicked people enjoy the good things that righteous people deserve. I think that this is difficult to understand.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1I thought about all these things so that I could understand them. I realized that God controls what happens to people. That includes righteous people and wise people. God decides the things that they do. Nobody knows what will happen in their lives. Other people may love them, or they may hate them.
• Job 6:25True words may give pain to the person who listens to them. But the things that you say against me mean nothing.
• Job 13:4What you say about me is only lies. You would be useless as doctors.
• Job 16:3Please stop speaking useless words. Why do you talk to me like that?
• Job 17:2All around me, people are laughing at me. I have to watch them as they insult me.
• Job 19:2‘Please stop speaking to me like that! Your words continue to make me suffer.
• Job 21:3Be patient with me so that I can speak. After you have heard what I say, you may choose to laugh at me.
• 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 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