King James Version
What Does Job 12:2 Mean?
“No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”
King James Version
“No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”
And Job answered and said,
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? understanding: Heb. an heart I am: Heb. I fall not lower than you who: Heb. with whom are not such as these?
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.
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