What Does Job 12:3 Mean?

“But”

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

“I have understanding”

the heart (as the most interior organ)

“to you yea who knoweth not such things”

as, thus, so

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“as well as you I am not inferior”

to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)

i

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix

a nonentity; generally used as a negative particle

“to you yea who knoweth not such things”

as, thus, so

these or those