God’s Word Translation
Job 12:2
2“You certainly are ⌞wise⌟ people, and when you die, wisdom will die.
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 ⌞to his friends⌟, “You certainly are ⌞wise⌟ people, and when you die, wisdom will die. 3Like you, I have a mind. I am not inferior to you. But who doesn’t know these things? 4I am a laughingstock to my neighbors. I am one who calls on God and expects an answer. A man of integrity, a man who is righteous, has become 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 6:24Teach me, and I’ll be silent. Show me where I’ve been wrong.
- Job 8:8“Ask the people of past generations. Find out what their ancestors had learned.
- Job 11:2“Shouldn’t someone answer this flood of words? Should a good public speaker be acquitted?
- Job 15:2“Should a wise person answer with endless details and fill his stomach with the east wind?
- Job 17:4You have closed their minds so that they cannot understand. That is why you will not honor them.
- Job 20:3I have heard criticism that makes me ashamed, but a spirit beyond my understanding gives me answers.
- Job 32:7I thought, ‘Age should speak, and experience should teach wisdom.’
- Proverbs 28:11A rich person is wise in his own eyes, but a poor person with understanding sees right through him.
- Isaiah 5:21How horrible it will be for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.
- 1 Corinthians 4:10We have given up our wisdom for Christ, but you have insight because of Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
- 1 Corinthians 6:5You should be ashamed of yourselves! Don’t you have at least one wise person who is able to settle disagreements between believers?
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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