Job 13:2

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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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“My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it. What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. 4You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!

Job 13:2 word by word

כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם יָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם־אָ֑נִי לֹא־נֹפֵ֖ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• What ye knowדַּ֫עַתda‛ath · knowledgeH1847
• do I knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• not inferiorנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307

Cross-references for Job 13:2

• Job 12:3But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
• Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
• Job 34:35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
• Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
• Job 37:2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
• Job 40:4“I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth.
• Job 42:7After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
• 1 Corinthians 8:1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.
• 2 Corinthians 11:4For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.
• 2 Corinthians 12:11I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “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