“ No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ”
No doubt but ye are the people - That is, the only wise people. You have engrossed all the wisdom of the world, and all else are to be regarded as fools. This is evidently the language of severe...
No doubt but ye [are] the people, and (a) wisdom shall die with you. (a) Because you do not feel what you speak, you think the whole stands in words, and so flatter yourselves as though no one else...
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 wis...
No doubt, &c. Figure of speech Eironeia. App-6.
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. No doubt but ye are the people - Doubtless ye are the wisest men in the world; all wisdom is concentrated in you; and when ye die, the...
No doubt but ye are the people— No doubt knowledge is yours; perfect wisdom dwells with you!
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Wisdom shall die with you! - Ironical. As if all the wisdom in the world was concentrated in them, and would expire when they ex...
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...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
“God's Paths in Deep Waters” Job 12:1-25 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains...
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 guil...
(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 t...
No doubt but ye [are] the people ,.... Which is said not seriously, meaning that they were but of the common people, that are generally ignorant, and have but little knowledge, at least of things su...
No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Ver. 2. No doubt but ye are the people ] The select peculiar people, the only ones, as a man is put for a good man, Jeremiah 5:1 ,...
No doubt but ye are the people You, of all people, are the most eminent for wisdom; the only men living of distinguished knowledge and prudence. You have engrossed all the reason of mankind, and ea...
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 tha...
Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 And Job answered and said, 2 No doubt but ye are...
Ye are the people; you three, and you only, are the people , i.e. people of all people for eminency of wisdom, the only company of reasonable creatures; all others are but fools or beasts: you hav...
JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech ( Job 12:2-3 ). His defence is:— 1. Ironical ( Job 12:2 ). “No doubt but ye are the people...
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...
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, un...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters ( Job 12:1-18 ; Job 13:1-18 ; Job 14:1-18 .). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:10 ; 1 Corinthians 6:5 ; Isaiah 5:21 ; Job 11:12 ; Job 11:2 ; Job 11:6 ; Job 15:2 ; Job 17:4 ; Job 20:3 ; Job 32:7-13 ; Job 6:24 ; Job 6:25 ; Job 8:8-10 ; Proverbs 28:11...
Ye — You have engrossed all the reason of mankind; and each of you has as much wisdom as an whole people put together. All the wisdom which is in the world, lives in you, and will be utterly lost w...