Job 27:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind? 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie. 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in 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 make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Suffer me that I may 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 [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Job 26:2-4 : 2 How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 ¶ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be 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 considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that 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 among all [things] that are 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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  • 11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

  • 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

  • Job 36:24-25
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    24 ¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

    25 Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off.

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    2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.

    3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

  • 17 ¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;

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

  • 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?

    8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

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

  • 8 ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

  • 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider [it]?

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

  • 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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  • Job 21:28-29
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    28 For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?

    29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

  • 21 For now ye are nothing; ye see [my] casting down, and are afraid.

  • 14 Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

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

  • 17 ¶ What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • 29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images [are] wind and confusion.

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

  • 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for [it is] evident unto you if I lie.

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

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    2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

  • 4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.

  • 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

  • 10 For 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 thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.

  • 3 How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

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    8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

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

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    12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, [there was] none of you that convinced Job, [or] that answered his words:

    13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

  • 1 ¶ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?

  • 2 For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

  • 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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

  • 18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

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

  • 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?

  • 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

  • 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].