Job 12:3New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “But I have intelligence as well as you; I am not inferior to you. And who does not know such things as these?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yes, who knoweth not such things as these?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— I also, have a mind like you, I, fall not short, of you, But who hath not such things as these?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But I haue vnderstanding as well as you, I am not inferiour to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; but to whom are such things as these not known?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— [But] I also have a heart as well as you.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But I have understanding as well as you; I [am] not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? |
But
1571 {1571} Primeגַּםgam{gam}
By contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correlation both... and.
I have understanding
3824 {3824} Primeלֵבָבlebab{lay-bawb'}
From H3823; the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like H3820.
as well as you;
x3644 (3644) Complementכְמוֹk@mow{kem-o'}
A form of the prefix K, but used separately (compare H3651); as, thus, so.
I
x595 (0595) Complementאָנֹכִי'anokiy{aw-no-kee'}
A primitive pronoun; I.
[ am] not
x3808 (3808) Complementלֹאlo'{lo}
lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.
inferior
5307 {5307} Primeנָפַלnaphal{naw-fal'}
A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitively or causatively, literally or figuratively).
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
to
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
you: yea,
x854 (0854) Complementאֵת'eth{ayth}
Probably from H0579; properly nearness (used only as a preposition or adverb), near; hence generally with, by, at, among, etc.
who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
knoweth not
x369 (0369) Complementאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
such things
y3644 [3644] Standardכְמוֹk@mow{kem-o'}
A form of the prefix K, but used separately (compare H3651); as, thus, so.
as these?
x3644 (3644) Complementכְמוֹk@mow{kem-o'}
A form of the prefix K, but used separately (compare H3651); as, thus, so.
x428 (0428) Complementאֵלֶּה'el-leh{ale'-leh}
Prolonged from H0411; these or those. |
Job 12:3
_ _ not inferior — not vanquished in argument and “wisdom” (Job 13:2).
_ _ such things as these — such commonplace maxims as you so pompously adduce. |
Job 12:3
But — In these things, which he speaks not in a way of boasting, but for the just vindication both of himself, and of that cause of God, which for the substance of it he maintained rightly, as God himself attests, Job 42:7. 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. |
- But I have:
Job 13:2-5 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you. ... O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
2 Corinthians 11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:21-23 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. ... Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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- understanding:
- Heb. an heart
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- I am not inferior to you:
- Heb. I fall not lower than you. who knoweth not such things as these. Heb. with whom are not such as these.
Job 6:6-7 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? ... The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
Job 26:2-3 How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength? ... How hast thou counselled [him that hath] no wisdom? and [how] hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
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