Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 12:2 in other translations
| BSB | “Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! |
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| WEB | “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. |
| ASV | No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you. |
| YLT | Truly--ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die. |
| DARBY | Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you! |
| BBE | No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you. |
| Webster | No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. |
What does Job 12:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 12:1-5
Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; this is our folly; yet here was colour for this charge. He suspected the true cause of their conduct to be, that they despised him who was fallen into poverty. It is the way of the world. Even the just, upright man, if he…
Job 12:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 12:2
- Isaiah 5:21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
- Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
- Job 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
- Job 8:8-10
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
- 1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
- Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
- Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
- 1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
- Job 6:24-25
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Context
- Job 12:1
And Job answered and said,
- Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
- Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 12:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Ciertamente que vosotros sois el pueblo; y con vosotros morirá la sabiduría. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vraiment vous êtes les seuls hommes, et avec vous mourra la sagesse! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Fürwahr, ihr seid die Leute, und mit euch wird die Weisheit aussterben! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ergo vos estis soli homines, et vobiscum morietur sapientia? |