Job 12:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:24-25 : 24 Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error. 25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:) 10 Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?
  • Job 11:2 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
  • Job 11:12 : 12 And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
  • Job 17:4 : 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.
  • Job 17:10 : 10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have to give ear to arguments which put me to shame, and your answers to me are wind without wisdom.
  • Job 32:7-9 : 7 I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom. 8 But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge. 9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right. 10 So I say, Give ear to me, and I will put forward my knowledge. 11 I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say, 12 I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words. 13 Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.
  • Prov 28:11 : 11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 And Job made answer and said,

  • 3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

  • Job 32:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.

    13 Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.

  • 21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Job 12:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

    13 With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.

  • Job 15:8-10
    3 verses
    72%

    8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

    9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

  • 16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

  • 4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • 10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

  • Job 34:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    34 Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say,

    35 Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

  • 9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • 2 Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me;

  • 12 Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?

  • 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

  • 7 But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

  • Job 28:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

  • 10 But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

  • 2 The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

  • 7 I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

  • 21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

  • 20 And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

  • 22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

  • 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • 3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

  • 5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

  • 20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • 10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

  • 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

  • 12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

  • Job 34:15-16
    2 verses
    67%

    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

    16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • 27 See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

  • 17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.

  • 33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.

  • 9 The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

  • 8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

  • 2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

  • 17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

  • 3 See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:

  • 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?