Job 12:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

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  • Job 6:24-25 : 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue; and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. 25 How forcible are right words! But what does your arguing reprove?
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:) 10 Will they not teach you, and tell you, and speak words from their heart?
  • Job 11:2 : 2 Should not the abundance of words be answered? And should a talkative man be justified?
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And that He would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double what is! Know therefore that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
  • Job 11:12 : 12 For hollow man would be wise, though man is born like a wild donkey's colt.
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Should a wise man utter empty knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • Job 17:4 : 4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
  • Job 17:10 : 10 But as for you all, do you return, and come now; for I cannot find one wise man among you.
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the rebuke of my dishonor, and the spirit of my understanding prompts me to respond.
  • Job 32:7-9 : 7 I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom. 8 But there is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. 9 Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment. 10 Therefore I said, Listen to me; I also will show my opinion. 11 Behold, I waited for your words; I listened to your reasoning while you sought what to say. 12 Yes, I paid attention to you, and behold, there was none of you who convinced Job or who answered his words. 13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man.
  • Prov 28:11 : 11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.
  • Isa 5:21 : 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised.
  • 1 Cor 6:5 : 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1And Job answered and said,

  • 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: indeed, who does not know such things as these?

  • Job 32:12-13
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    12Yes, I paid attention to you, and behold, there was none of you who convinced Job or who answered his words.

    13Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man.

  • 21Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.

  • Job 12:12-13
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    12With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

    13With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

  • Job 15:8-10
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    8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that is not in us?

    10With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men, much older than your father.

  • 16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

  • 4Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth,

  • 10For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

  • Job 34:34-35
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    70%

    34Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man listen to me.

    35Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

  • 9Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment.

  • 2Hear my words, O you wise men; and listen to me, you who have knowledge.

  • 12Behold, you yourselves have seen it; why then are you altogether vain?

  • 8Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

  • 2Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 7But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

    13Man does not know its value; nor is it found in the land of the living.

  • 10But as for you all, do you return, and come now; for I cannot find one wise man among you.

  • 2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

  • 7I said, Let days speak, and multitude of years teach wisdom.

  • 21Do you know it, because you were born then? Or because the number of your days is great?

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

  • 22Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing He judges those who are high?

  • 12Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • 3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

  • 5Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.

  • 20From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

  • 10Do not say, 'Why were the former days better than these?' for you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

  • 23For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • 12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

  • Job 34:15-16
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    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

    16If now you have understanding, hear this; listen to the voice of my words.

  • 27Behold this, we have searched it out, it is true; hear it, and know it for your good.

  • 17So Job died, old and full of days.

  • 33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 12If you are wise, you will be wise for yourself: but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

  • 9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

  • 8For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

  • 2I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

  • 17Do not be overly wicked, nor be foolish; why should you die before your time?

  • 3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:

  • 10But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?