Job 12:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Job 12:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Job 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Graces Haughtiness Heart Ignorance Knowledge

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly. I. He upbraids them with their conceitedness of themselves, and the good opinion they seemed to have of their own wisdom in comparison with him, than which nothing is more weak and unbecoming, nor better deserves t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

FIRST 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).