Job 12:2

No doubt but ye are the people— No doubt knowledge is yours; perfect wisdom dwells with you!

Related Commentaries of Job 12:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
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 t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

No doubt, &c. Figure of speech Eironeia. App-6.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 c...
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 r...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A sarcastic allusion to the omniscience of the friends: Ye are the people the only wise ones.
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 mu...
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...
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 sarca...
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 a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, an...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 one...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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. Yo...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 crea...
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. Ironi...
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 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 lef...
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 f...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

No doubt but ye are the people, that is, the right kind, the representative men, and wisdom shall die with you, since, by their own statements, the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ; Jo...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 t...

² No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Related Commentaries of Job 12:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 12:2