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Verse Job 12:3. _I_ AM _NOT INFERIOR TO YOU_] I do not fall short of
any of you in understanding, wisdom, learning, and experience.
_WHO KNOWETH NOT SUCH THINGS AS THESE?_] All your boasted wisdom
co...
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BUT I HAVE UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS YOU - Margin, as in the Hebrew
“an heart.” The word “heart” in the Scriptures is often used
to denote the understanding or mind. It seems to have been regarded as
t...
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CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR
_ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_
2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7)
3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1)
4. He appeals to God ...
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Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the
ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's
wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only
wise...
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WHO KNOWETH NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotisis._ App-6....
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_But I have understanding_ Rather, I ALSO HAVE UNDERSTANDING, lit.
_heart_; cf. on ch. Job 11:12, to the depreciating words of which Job
refers.
_who knoweth not such things as these_ lit. _with whom...
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G. COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONJOB'S RESPONSE (Job 12:1, Job 14:22)
1. He ridicules the wisdom and judgment of his friends. (Job 12:1-6)
TEXT 12:1-6
12 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 No doubt but ye ar...
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12:3 understanding (f-4) Lit. 'heart.' so ver. 24, and chs. 34.10,34;
36.5....
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JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14)
The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know
that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but
experience shows that His power and wisd...
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Zophar said that he knew some secrets about wisdom (Job 11:6). But Job
did not agree. He thought that Zophar’s advice was too simple. Job
even said that everybody knows such things. Anybody can say th...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 12
JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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גַּם ־לִ֤י לֵבָ֨ב ׀ כְּֽמֹוכֶ֗ם לֹא
־נֹפֵ֣ל א
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XII.
BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD
Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1
Job SPEAKS
ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set
down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
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“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS”
Job 12:1
Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness
invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he
bitterly complains that his...
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Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well
as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills
with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
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(1) В¶ 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
th...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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BUT I HAVE UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS YOU,.... A natural understanding,
or an understanding of natural things, which distinguishes a man from
a brute; and a spiritual understanding, an understanding enl...
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But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you:
yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Ver. 3. _But I have understanding as well as you_] Think not that you
have engrossed al...
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_But I have_ an _understanding_ Hebrew, _a heart_, which is often put
for the _understanding:_ God hath given me also the knowledge and
ability to judge of these matters. _I am not inferior to you_ In...
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But I have understanding as well as you, he was in no wise lacking in
the understanding of which they thought they had the monopoly; I AM
NOT INFERIOR TO YOU, he was not meaner in wisdom than they and...
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THE STRANGE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS.
If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be
regarded as the direct punishment for a specific sin, then his faith
in the justice of God...
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JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM
(vv.1-25)
Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are
the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied
that h...
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UNDERSTANDING:
_ Heb._ an heart
I AM NOT INFERIOR TO YOU:
_ Heb._ I fall not lower then you
WHO KNOWETH NOT SUCH THINGS AS THESE?:
With whom are not such as these?...
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Though Job is suffering, he can still think, and he was not inferior
to them in wisdom (Job 13:2). In fact, the things that they said about
God and His justice and wisdom were simply common knowledge,...
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1-5 Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their
own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches,
and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; th...
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AN UNDERSTANDING, Heb. _a heart_; which is oft put for the
_understanding_, as JOB 34:34 JEREMIAH 5:21 ACTS 8:22; i.e. God hath
given me also the knowledge and ability to judge of these matters. I
AM...
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Job 12:3 But H1571 understanding H3824 inferior H5307 (H8802) things
H3644
But I have - Job 13:2-5;...
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CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends.
CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all
things by rules with which t...
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Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be
rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers;
referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the
fo...
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_But I have understanding as well as you._
THE EFFECT OF THE FRIENDS’ SPEECHES UPON JOB
The whole world, Job feels, is against him, and he is left forlorn and
solitary, unpitied in his misery, unguid...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with
his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims
of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:2 Job reveals his frustration through sarcasm.
Responding perhaps to Zophar’s wish that God would tell Job “the
secrets of wisdom” (Job 11:5), Job says, “wisdom will die w
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_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_
I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in
Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2).
His defence is:—
1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and
wisd...
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EXPOSITION
The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters
(Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion
of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
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So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and
wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2).
He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers,
and they're not...
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2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 13:2; Job 26:2; Job 26:
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But — In these things, which he speaks not in a way of boasting, but
for the just vindication both of himself, and of that cause of God,
which for the substance of it he maintained rightly, as God him...