Job 13:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם יָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם־אָ֑נִי לֹא־נֹפֵ֖ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּֽם׃

Transliteration

Kedaʿtekem yādaʿtî gam-ʾānî lōʾ-nōpēl ʾānōkî mikkem

Grammar Details

• *Kedaʿtekem*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - like your knowledge
• *yādaʿtî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I know/have known
• *gam*: adverb - also/too
• *ʾānî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *nōpēl*: verb, Qal participle, masculine singular - falling/inferior
• *ʾānōkî*: pronoun, 1st person singular (emphatic) - I myself
• *mikkem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - from you

Word Meanings

• *yādaʿtî*: I know/I understand/I am aware of
• *nōpēl*: falling/inferior/less than
• *mikkem*: from you/compared to you/in relation to you

Referenced Verses

• Job 12:3 : 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
• Job 15:8-9 : 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?
• Job 34:35 : 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
• Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
• Job 37:2 : 2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
• Job 42:7 : 7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
• 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
• 2 Cor 11:4-5 : 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
• 2 Cor 11:16-18 : 16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
• 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.