Job 12:2

Job 12:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall 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!
• 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 replied: “Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you! 3But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things? 4“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!

Job 12:2 word by word

אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• No doubtאׇמְנָם'omnâm · trulyH551
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• and wisdomחׇכְמָהchokmâh · wisdomH2451
• shall dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Job 12:2

• Job 6:24“Teach me, and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
• Job 8:8“Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned,
• Job 11:2“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?
• Job 15:2“Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
• Job 17:4You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
• Job 20:3I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
• Job 32:7I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.’
• Proverbs 28:11The rich are wise in their own eyes; one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.
• Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
• 1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!
• 1 Corinthians 6:5I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute 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

Topics related to Job 12:2

• Irony
• Pride
• Sarcasm
• Self-Righteousness
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• Deep
• Discover
• Doubt
• 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