Job 12:7 BSB — MannaFest

Job 12:7

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

BSB

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ASV

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell thee:

KJV

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

But ask now the beasts - Rosenmuller supposes that this appeal to the inferior creation should be regarded as connected with Job 12:3, and that the intermediate verses are parenthetical. Zophar had spoken with considerable parade of the wisdom of God. He had said (Job 11:7 ff) that the knowledge of God was higher than the heavens, and had professed Job 12:6 to have himself exalted views of the Most High. In reply to this, Job says that the views which Zophar had expressed, were the most commonplace imaginable.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם	ve.'u.Lam	and but	H199 →
שְׁאַל־	she.'al-	ask	H7592 →
נָ֣א	na'	please	H4994 →
בְהֵמ֣וֹת	ve.he.Mot	[the] animals	H929 →
וְתֹרֶ֑ךָּ	ve.to.Re.ka	so it may teach you	H3384 →
וְע֥וֹף	ve.'of	and [the] bird[s] of	H5775 →
הַ֝שָּׁמַ֗יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
וְיַגֶּד־	ve.ya.ged-	so it may tell	H5046 →
לָֽךְ׃	Lakh	to you

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

The walk

The walk8

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
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
leads to
- Isaiah 5:12
  At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 8:7
  Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 4:22
  “For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Isaiah 44:18
  They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
Through
Proverbs 6:6
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
leads to
- Proverbs 20:4
  The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
- Proverbs 18:9
  Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.
- Proverbs 6:9
  How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Proverbs 13:4
  The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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