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, "who does not know such things as these?" "After all, he was. wise man of the East, too" (Zuck p. 55).
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
WHO KNOWETH NOT. ? Figure of speech _Erotisis._ App-6....
_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...
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...
_BUT I HAVE UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS YOU; I AM NOT INFERIOR TO YOU: YEA, WHO KNOWETH NOT SUCH THINGS AS THESE?_ Not inferior - not vanquished in argument and "wisdom" (Job 13:2). SUCH THINGS AS THE...
12:3 understanding (f-4) Lit. 'heart.' so ver. 24, and chs. 34.10,34; 36.5....
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...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
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...
גַּם ־לִ֤י לֵבָ֨ב ׀ כְּֽמֹוכֶ֗ם לֹא ־נֹפֵ֣ל א
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...
“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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
Job 12:3 But H1571 understanding H3824 inferior H5307 (H8802) things H3644 But I have - Job 13:2-5;...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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
_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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:5; Job 13:2; Job 26:2; Job 26:
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...