Job 12:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I have understandinga as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? ”

• Job 12:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  who knoweth not. ? Figure of speech Erotisis. App-6.

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• Job 12:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? I am not inferior to you - I do not fall short of any of you in understanding, wisdom,...

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• Job 12:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 thin...

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• Job 12:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 12:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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...

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• Job 12:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 I...

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• Job 12:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520.       1 And Job answered and said,   2 No doubt but ye are...

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• Job 12:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 mat...

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• Job 12:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Job 12:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 11:21-23 ; 2 Corinthians 11:5 ; Job 13:2-5 ; Job 26:2 ; Job 26:3 ; Job 6:6 ; Job 6:7 ; Proverbs 26:4

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• Job 12:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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