Job 12:1
in Job 12Then Job answered:
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Then Job answered and said,
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And Job answered and said,
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This verse in Job 12
Commentary
4 notes on this verseJob speaks in an admirable way. Instead of briefly saying, "You would not be able to be men," he questions them, and what does he ask? "So are you really men, and shall wisdom die with you?" This means, "Is the honor of rational beings …
This site's exposition
Then Job answered
on Job 12:1-3
Job answers all three friends with "Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die", the book's sharpest irony. The sarcasm is plain, since he at once claims, "I am not inferior to you". The friends have told him nothing new.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
In the preceding chapter Sophar had tried to show that man cannot understand the secrets of the wisdom of God (11:6) to insult Job who seemed almost to demand a debate with God. So one can posit from his words and the words of the …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Job answered and said. In reply to Zophar, and in defence of himself; what is recorded in this and the two following chapters.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֥עַן | vaiyaan | and he answered | H6030 → | 331 times |
| אִיּ֗וֹב | ʾiyov | Job | H347 → | 58 times |
| וַיֹּאמַֽר׃ | vaiyomar | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיַּ֥עַןand he answered
vaiyaanH6030 →331 times
אִיּ֗וֹבJob
ʾiyovH347 →58 times
וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said
vaiyomarH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Job
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Hesychius of Jerusalem, HOMILIES ON JOB 15.12.2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.