Job 12:3

Job 12:3

Job Answers His Critics

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “No doubt you are the people,
And wisdom will die with you!

3 But I have¹ understanding as well as you;
I am not ^ainferior to you.
Indeed, who does not know such things as these?

4 “I^a am one mocked by his friends,
Who ^bcalled on God, and He answered him,
The just and blameless who is ridiculed.

5 A¹ lamp is despised in the thought of one who is at ease;
It is made ready for ^athose whose feet slip.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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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 consists only in strings of proverbs which are in every person' s mouth, and are no proof of wisdom and experience in them that use them.

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