Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job 13:2 in other translations
| BSB | What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. |
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| WEB | What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. |
| ASV | What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
| YLT | According to your knowledge I have known--also I. I am not fallen more than you. |
| DARBY | What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you. |
| BBE | The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you. |
| Webster | What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you. |
What does Job 13:2 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:1-12
With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or distressed with the fear of wrath, the force of temptation, or the weight of affliction, we should apply to the Physician of our souls, who never rejects any, never prescribes amiss, and never leaves any case uncured. To Him we…
Job 13:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 13:2
- 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?
- 2 Corinthians 11:16-18
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
- Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
- Job 40:4-5
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
- Job 37:2
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
- Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4-5
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- 1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
- Job 34:35
Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- Job 15:8-9
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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Context
- Job 13:1
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
- Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 13:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como vosotros lo sabéis, lo sé yo; no soy menos que vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ce que vous connaissez, moi aussi je le connais; je ne vous suis pas inférieur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | So viel ihr wisset, weiß auch ich; ich stehe nicht hinter euch zurück. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi: nec inferior vestri sum. |