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Job 27:12

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Behold, all of you have seen [it]; Why then do you act foolishly?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lo, ye—all of you—have seen, And why [is] this—ye are altogether vain?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Behold, all ye your selues haue seene [it], why then are yee thus altogether vaine?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Behold, all of you have seen it; why then do you boast in vain?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Behold, x2005
(2005) Complement
הֵן
hen
{hane}
A primitive particle; lo! also (as expressing surprise) if.
all x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
ye yourselves x859
(0859) Complement
אַתָּה
'attah
{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
have seen 2372
{2372} Prime
חָזָה
chazah
{khaw-zaw'}
A primitive root; to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically to have a vision of.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
[it]; why x4100
(4100) Complement
מָּה
mah
{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
then are ye thus x2088
(2088) Complement
זֶה
zeh
{zeh}
A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.
altogether 1892
{1892} Prime
הֶבֶל
hebel
{heh'-bel}
From H1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb.
vain? 1891
{1891} Prime
הָבַל
habal
{haw-bal'}
A primitive root; to be vain in act, word, or expectation; specifically to lead astray.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Job 27:11-23.


Job 27:12

_ _ “Ye yourselves see” that the wicked often are afflicted (though often the reverse, Job 21:33). But do you “vainly” make this an argument to prove from my afflictions that I am wicked?

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 27:11-23.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 27:12

Have seen — I speak what is confirmed by your own, as well as others experiences. Vain — To condemn me for a wicked man, because I am afflicted.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 27:12

Behold, all ye yourselves (h) have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether (i) vain?

(h) That is, these secret judgments of God and yet do not understand them.

(i) Why do you then maintain this error?

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
ye yourselves:

Job 21:28-30 For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? ... That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Ecclesiastes 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3 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 man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them. ... This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, 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.

altogether:

Job 6:25-29 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ... Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness [is] in it.
Job 13:4-9 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. ... Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
Job 16:3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 17:2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job 19:2-3 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ... These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job 21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 26:2-4 How hast thou helped [him that is] without power? [how] savest thou the arm [that hath] no strength? ... To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
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Jb 6:25; 13:4; 16:3; 17:2; 19:2; 21:3, 28; 26:2. Ec 8:14; 9:1.

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