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What Does Job 12:2 Mean?

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

Context

1

And Job answered and said,

2

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

3

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?

4

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

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Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ne 13:15-31. The Violation of the Sabbath. **15-22. In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine-presses on the sabbath--**The cessation of the temple services had been necessarily followed by a public profanation of the Sabbath, and this had gone so far that labor was carried on in the fields, and fish brought to the markets on the sacred day. Nehemiah took the decisive step of ordering the city gates to be shut, and not to be opened, till the Sabbath was past; and in order to ensure the faithful execution of this order, he stationed some of his own servants as guards, to prevent the introduction of any commodities on that day. On the merchants and various dealers finding admission denied them, they set up booths outside the walls, in hopes of still driving a traffic with the peasantry; but the governor threatened, if they continued, to adopt violent measures for their removal. For this purpose a body of Levites was stationed as sentinels at the gate, with discretionary powers to protect the sanctification of the Sabbath.

Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.

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