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THE MESSAGE
Job 12:2
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No doubt you are the people,and wisdom will die with you!
"No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
"You really think you are the only wise people and that when you die, wisdom will die with you!
"Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
"No doubt you are the [only wise] people [in the world], And wisdom will die with you!
"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
"No doubt, but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.
"Truly then you are the people,And with you wisdom will die!
"Truly then you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
You think you are so great, with all the answers.
"No doubt you are [the only] people [that matter]; and when you die, so will wisdom.
Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
"I'm sure you think you are the only wise people left. You think that when you die, wisdom will be gone with you.
Truly, you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
"Truly indeed you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Then (no doute) ye are the men alone, and wy?dome shal perish with you.
No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisedome shall die with you.
Then no doubt ye are the men alone, and wysdome shall perishe with you.
So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Therfor ben ye men aloone, that wisdom dwelle with you?
No doubt but you are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.
No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
"No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!
"You people really know everything, don't you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.
Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?
"No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Truly -- ye [are] the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
"Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye are the people: Job 6:24, Job 6:25, Job 8:8-10, Job 11:2, Job 11:6, Job 11:12, Job 15:2, Job 17:4, Job 20:3, Job 32:7-13, Proverbs 28:11, Isaiah 5:21, 1 Corinthians 4:10, 1 Corinthians 6:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 4:10 - eloquent Job 5:27 - we have searched Job 6:13 - and is wisdom Job 15:8 - thou restrain Job 26:2 - How hast thou Job 32:13 - We 2 Corinthians 10:12 - we dare not
Cross-References
So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound. Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.
He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God .
Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
Pharaoh called for Abram, "What's this that you've done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she's your wife? Why did you say, ‘She's my sister' so that I'd take her as my wife? Here's your wife back—take her and get out!"
Then he took him outside and said, "Look at the sky. Count the stars. Can you do it? Count your descendants! You're going to have a big family, Abram!"
And that's the story: When God destroyed the Cities of the Plain, he was mindful of Abraham and first got Lot out of there before he blasted those cities off the face of the Earth.
God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
No doubt but ye [are] the people,.... Which is said not seriously, meaning that they were but of the common people, that are generally ignorant, and have but little knowledge, at least of things sublime, especially in matters of religion; wherefore, though they took upon them to be his teachers and dictators to him, and censors of him, they were not above the rank, but in the class of people of low and mean understandings; see John 7:49; this sense indeed agrees with what is after said, "who knoweth not such things as these?" but since Job compares himself with them, and asserts he is not inferior to them, it supposes them to have a degree of knowledge and understanding of things somewhat above the common people; wherefore these words are to be taken ironically, exposing their vanity and self-conceit: "ye are the people"; the only, and all the people in the world of importance and consequence for good sense and wisdom; the only wise and knowing folk, the men of reason and understanding; all the rest are but fools and asses, or like the wild ass's colt, as Zophar had said, and which Job took as pointing to him; so the word in the Arabic language c signifies the more excellent and better sort of people; or, ye are the only people of God, his covenant people, his servants; that are made acquainted with the secrets of wisdom, as none else are:
and wisdom shall die with you; you have all the wisdom of the world, and when you die it will be all gone; there will be none left in the world: thus he represents them as monopolizers and engrossers of wisdom and knowledge, full of it in their conceit, allowing none to have any share with them: and by all this he not only upbraids them with their vanity and self-conceit, but puts them in mind, that, as wise as they were, they must die; and that, though their wisdom with respect to them, or any use they could make of it in the grave, where there is none, would die too; or that their wisdom was but the wisdom of the world, which comes to nought; yet there would be wisdom still in the world, and that which is true, which God makes known to men, even the wisdom of God in a mystery, the wisdom hid in himself; and who has the residue of the Spirit and his gifts to instruct men in it, and qualify them to be teachers of others; by which means, though men, even the best of men, die, yet the word of God, the means of true wisdom and knowledge, will always abide.
c Golii Lex. Ar. Col. 1743. Vid. Lud. Capell. in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
No doubt but ye are the people - That is, the only wise people. You have engrossed all the wisdom of the world, and all else are to be regarded as fools. This is evidently the language of severe sarcasm; and it shows a spirit fretted and chafed by their reproaches. Job felt contempt for their reasoning. and meant to intimate that their maxims, on which they placed so much reliance, were common-place, and such as every one was familar with.
And wisdom shall die with you - This is ironical, but it is language such as is common perhaps every where. âThe people of the East,â says Roberts, âtake great pleasure in irony, and some of their satirical sayings are very cutting. When a sage intimates that he has superior wisdom or when he is disposed to rally another for his meagrc attainments, he says, âYes, yes, you are the man! â âYour wisdom is like the sea.â âWhen you die, whither will wisdom go?ââ In a serious sense, language like this is used by the Classical writers to describe the death of eminently great or good men. They speak of wisdom, bravery, piety, or music, as dying with them. Thus, Moschus, Idyll. iii. 12.
ÎÌÌÏÏι βιÌÏν ÏεÌθνηκεν Î¿Ì Î²ÏÌκολοÏ, εÌÌÏÏι ÏÏ Ìν Î±Ï ÌÏÏÍÍ
ÎÎ±Î¹Ì ÏÎ¿Ì Î¼ÎµÌÎ»Î¿Ï ÏεÌθνακε, ÎºÎ±Î¹Ì ÏÌÌλεÏο ÎÏÏιÌÏ Î±ÌειδοÌÏ.
Hotti bioÌn tethneÌken ho boÌkolos, esti sun autoÌ
Kai to melos tethnake, kai oÌleto DoÌris aeidos.
âBion the swain is dead, and with him song
Has died, and the Doric muse has perished.â
Expressions like these are common. Thus, in the âPleasures of Hopeâ it is said:
And Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:2. No doubt but ye are the people — Doubtless ye are the wisest men in the world; all wisdom is concentrated in you; and when ye die, there will no more be found on the face of the earth! This is a strong irony.
