Job 27:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Job 27:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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? …
Job 13:4-9
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. …
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. …

Topics

Wicked (people)

Commentary

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

(vv. 11-23)

Job’s friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He…

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

(vv. 12)

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 n…