Job 27:12

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove? 26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind? 27 Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. 28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face. 29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value. 5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? 29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • Job 26:2-4 : 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength! 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge! 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.

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  • 12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

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    24Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

    25All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

  • 4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?

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    2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

  • 17I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

  • 1Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

  • 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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    7Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

    8Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

    6Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

  • 11For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

  • 21and turn ye not aside; for [then would ye go] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

  • 34How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth [only] falsehood?

  • 11I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

  • Job 21:28-29
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    28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

    29Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

  • 21For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

  • 14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

  • 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • 29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • 4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

  • 28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.

  • 27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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    2O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? {{Selah

  • 4But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • 10For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

  • 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

    9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

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    12Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

    13Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

  • 1Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

  • 9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

  • 2For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

  • 20and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise that they are vain.

  • 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

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

  • 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

  • 47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • 11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .