Verse 12

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

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  • Job 6:25-29 : 25 How forcible are right words! But what does your arguing reprove? 26 Do you imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one who is desperate, which are as wind? 27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend. 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie. 29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.
  • Job 13:4-9 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians. 5 Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will you accept his person? will you contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 21:3 : 3 Allow me to speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
  • Job 21:28-30 : 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?' 29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs? 30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought 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 how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is? 4 To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?
  • Eccl 8:14 : 14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth: there are just 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 considered in my heart, even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No one knows either love or hatred by all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrifices, and to him that does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. 3 This is an evil among all things that are 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.