Job 12:3

World English Bible (2000)

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't 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 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. 4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
  • Prov 26:4 : 4 Don't answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
  • Job 6:6-7 : 6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 13:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

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

    3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • Job 15:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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

  • Job 12:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Then Job answered,

    2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

  • Job 42:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

    4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

  • Job 20:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

    4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

  • Prov 30:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.

    3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

    13 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

  • Job 34:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

    35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'

  • 4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

  • 12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

  • 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

  • 2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

  • 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

  • 15 Then I said in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

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

  • 11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

  • 13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • 16 I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

  • 8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

  • 12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

  • 21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

  • 23 All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

  • 3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

  • 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

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

  • 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • 12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

  • 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • 10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

  • 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • 36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

  • 22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

  • 16 Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

  • 10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

  • 13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.