Job 12:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:2-5 : 2 What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you! 3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. 4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians! 5 If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength! 3 How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!
  • Prov 26:4 : 4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.
  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 (To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ?(I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
  • Job 6:6-7 : 6 Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

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  • Job 13:1-3
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    84%

    1Job Pleads His Cause to God“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

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

    3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

  • Job 15:8-9
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    8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

  • Job 12:1-2
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    1Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:

    2“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

  • Job 42:3-4
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    77%

    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

    4You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

  • Job 20:3-4
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    3When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.

    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Prov 30:2-3
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    76%

    2Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;

    3I have not learned wisdom, nor can I have knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:12-13
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    12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

    13“With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

  • Job 34:34-35
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    34Men of understanding say to me– any wise man listening to me says–

    35that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.

  • Job 12:4
    74%

    4I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

  • Job 28:12
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    12No Price Can Buy Wisdom“But wisdom– where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 32:9
    73%

    9It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

  • Job 9:32
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    32For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

  • Job 34:2
    73%

    2“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.

  • Job 28:20
    73%

    20God Alone Has Wisdom“But wisdom– where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Prov 8:14
    72%

    14Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.

  • Eccl 2:15
    72%

    15So I thought to myself,“The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?” So I lamented to myself,“The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!”

  • Job 38:2
    72%

    2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • Ps 73:11
    72%

    11They say,“How does God know what we do? Is the Most High aware of what goes on?”

  • Job 32:13
    72%

    13So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

  • Job 26:3
    72%

    3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

  • Eccl 1:16
    72%

    16Futility of Secular Wisdom I thought to myself,“I have become much wiser than any of my predecessors who ruled over Jerusalem; I have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.”

  • Eccl 6:8
    72%

    8So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?

  • Job 6:13
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    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 32:7
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    7I said to myself,‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

  • Job 33:12
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    12Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.

  • Job 38:21
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    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23Human Wisdom is Limited I have examined all this by wisdom; I said,“I am determined to comprehend this”– but it was beyond my grasp.

  • Job 36:3
    71%

    3With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively, and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.

  • Ps 94:8
    71%

    8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

  • Job 35:11
    71%

    11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

  • Ps 92:6
    71%

    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Prov 8:12
    71%

    12“I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

  • Job 11:8
    70%

    8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?

  • Job 17:10
    70%

    10Anticipation of Death“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

  • Job 38:4
    70%

    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • Job 38:36
    70%

    36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

  • Job 21:22
    70%

    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

  • Eccl 9:16
    70%

    16So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

  • Eccl 7:10
    70%

    10Do not say,“Why were the old days better than these days?” for it is not wise to ask that.

  • Eccl 9:13
    70%

    13Most People Are Not Receptive to Wise Counsel This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me: