English Standard Version
Job 13:2
2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Job 13:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- New International Version (NIV)What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I know as much as you do. You are no better than I am.
Context of Job 13:2
1"Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. 4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:2 word by word
כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם יָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם־אָ֑נִי לֹא־נֹפֵ֖ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:2
- Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- Job 15:8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 34:35'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
- Job 35:16Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."
- Job 37:2Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- Job 40:4"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
- 1 Corinthians 8:1Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
Commentaries on Job 13:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2What ye know - See the note at Job 12:3.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2Job appealed to experience, just like his comforters had done (3:12–17; 5:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-281. all this--as to the dealings of Providence (Job 12:3).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- 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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