English Standard Version
Job 12:2
2"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will 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!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!
- New Living Translation (NLT)“You people really know everything, don’t you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Context of Job 12:2
1Then Job answered and said: "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these? 4I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Read all of Job 12Job 12:2 word by word
אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 12:2
- Job 6:24"Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
- Job 8:8"For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
- Job 11:2"Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
- Job 15:2"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 17:4Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.
- Job 20:3I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
- Job 32:7I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'
- Proverbs 28:11A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
- Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
- 1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,
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
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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
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