Job 12:3 BSB — MannaFest

Job 12:3

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

KJV

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But I have understanding as well as you - Margin, as in the Hebrew “an heart.” The word “heart” in the Scriptures is often used to denote the understanding or mind. It seems to have been regarded as the source of that which was called life or soul. Indeed, I do not recollect a single instance in the Scriptures in which the word “head” is used, as with us, as the seat of the intellect, or where the distinction is adverted to that is so common with us, between the head and the heart.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Such things - The truth is, neither you nor I have any reason to be puffed up with our knowledge of these things: for the most barbarous nations know that God is infinite in wisdom, and power, and justice. But this is not the question between you and me.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
לִ֤י	li	[belongs] to me
לֵבָ֨ב׀	le.Vav	a heart	H3824 →
כְּֽמוֹכֶ֗ם	ke.mo.Khem	like you	H3644 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
נֹפֵ֣ל	no.Fel	[am] falling	H5307 →
אָנֹכִ֣י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
מִכֶּ֑ם	mi.Kem	more than you
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and with	H854 →
מִי־	mi-	whom?	H4310 →
אֵ֥ין	'ein	[are] there not	H369 →
כְּמוֹ־	ke.mov-	like	H3644 →
אֵֽלֶּה׃	'E.leh	these [things]	H428 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 26:4
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him.
leads to
- Proverbs 26:5
  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he become wise in his own eyes.
- 1 Peter 3:9
  Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Jude 1:9
  But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
- 1 Kings 12:14
  and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge…
- Proverbs 17:14
  To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job