Job 27:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? 26 Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind? 27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend. 28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face. 29 Please return. Let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 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. 6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 "How long will you torment me, And crush me with words? 3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' 29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • Job 26:2-4 : 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! 4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them. 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

  • 12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

  • Job 36:24-25
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    24 "Remember that you magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

    25 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

  • 4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

  • Job 16:2-3
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    2 "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

    3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

  • 17 "I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

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

  • 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Ezek 13:7-8
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    7 Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

    8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • 8 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

  • 11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

  • 21 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

  • 34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

  • 11 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

  • Job 21:28-29
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    28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

    29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

  • 21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

  • 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?

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

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,

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

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

  • 28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, For surely I shall not lie to your face.

  • 27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."

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    2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

  • 4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, Which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

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

  • Job 15:8-9
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    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 32:12-13
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    12 Yes, I gave you my full attention, But there was no one who convinced Job, Or who answered his words, among you.

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

  • 1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • 2 For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

  • 20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

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

  • 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • 47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • 11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • 17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.