Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Job 27:12 in other translations
| BSB | Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk? |
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| WEB | Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain? |
| ASV | Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain? |
| YLT | Lo, ye--all of you--have seen, And why is this--ye are altogether vain? |
| DARBY | Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; and why are ye thus altogether vain? |
| BBE | Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish? |
| Webster | Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? |
What does Job 27:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 27:11-23
11-23. These words are contrary to Job's previous sentiments (see on Job 21:22-33; Job 24:22-25). Job 21:22-33; 24:22-25). They therefore seem to be Job's statement, not so much of his own sentiments, as of what Zophar would have said had he spoken when his turn came (end of the twenty-sixth chapter). So Job stated the friends' opinion (Job 21:17-21; 24:18-21). The objection is, why, if so, does not Job answer…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 27:11-23
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to…
Job 27:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 27:12
- Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- Job 19:2-3
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
- Job 6:25-29
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie. …
- Job 13:4-9
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? …
- Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
- Job 21:28-30
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Job 26:2-4
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
- Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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Context
- Job 27:11
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
- Job 27:12
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
- Job 27:13
This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Job 27:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | He aquí que todos vosotros lo habéis visto: ¿por qué pues os desvanecéis con fantasía? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Voici, vous-mêmes, vous l’avez tous vu: et pourquoi entretenez-vous ces vaines pensées? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Siehe, ihr selbst habt es alle erschaut, und warum denn schwatzet ihr so eitel? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ecce vos omnes nostis: et quid sine causa vana loquimini? |