Job 12:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Job 12:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 13:2-5
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. …
2 Corinthians 11:21-23
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold,(I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. …
Proverbs 26:4
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Job 26:2-3
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? …
Job 6:6-7
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? …

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. 3)

3. not inferior--not vanquished in argument and “wisdom” (Job 13:2). such things as these--such commonplace maxims as you so pompously adduce.