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Job 27:12
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All of you have seen this for yourselves,why do you keep up this empty talk?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
You have all seen this yourselves. So why are we having all this talk that means nothing?
"Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you act vainly and foolishly [cherishing worthless concepts]?
"Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you talk of nothing?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; Why then have you become altogether vain?
Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?
Behold, all of you have seen it;Why then do you speak with utter vanity?
Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
All of you have seen these things for yourselves. So you have no excuse.
Look, you all can see for yourselves; so why are you talking such empty nonsense?
Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?
But you have seen it all with your own eyes. So why do you say such useless things?
Behold, all of you have seen it; why then do you boast in vain?
But no, after all, you have seen for yourselves; so why do you talk such nonsense?
Look, you all have seen, and why in the world have you become altogether vain?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; when then do you become vain with this vanity?
Beholde, ye stonde in yor owne conceate, as though ye knew all thinges. Wherfore then do ye go aboute wt soch vayne wordes,
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?
Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then are yee thus altogether vaine?
Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie?
Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?
Lo! alle ye knowen, and what speken ye veyn thingis with out cause?
Look, all you yourselves have seen it; Why then have you become altogether vain?
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it]; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?
But you have seen all this, yet you say all these useless things to me.
All of you have seen it yourselves. Why then do you speak in a foolish way?
All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
Lo, ye -- all of you -- have seen, And why [is] this -- ye are altogether vain?
"Behold, all of you have seen it; Why then do you act foolishly?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye yourselves: Job 21:28-30, Ecclesiastes 8:14, Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
altogether: Job 6:25-29, Job 13:4-9, Job 16:3, Job 17:2, Job 19:2, Job 19:3, Job 21:3, Job 26:2-4
Cross-References
So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."
When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."
So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's."
Esau exclaimed, "‘Jacob' is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he asked, "Have you not kept back a blessing for me?"
‘Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.' Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!'
With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.
A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord 's work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!
"There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the Lord who rules over all, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen [it],.... As they were men of observation, at least made great pretensions to it, as well as of age and experience, they must have seen and observed somewhat at least of the above things; they must have seen the wicked, as David afterwards did, spreading himself like a green bay tree, and the hypocrites in easy and flourishing circumstances, and good men labouring under great afflictions and pressures, and Job himself was now an instance of that before their eyes:
why then are ye thus altogether vain? or "become vain in vanity" k; so exceeding vain, so excessively trifling, as to speak and act against the dictates of their own conscience, against their own sense, and what they saw with their own eyes, and advance notions so contrary thereunto; as to affirm that evil men are always punished of God in this life, and good men are succeeded and prospered by him; and so from Job's afflictions drew so vain and empty a conclusion, that he must be a wicked man and an hypocrite.
k הבל תהבלו "vanitate vanescitis", Pagninus, Junius Tremellius, Michaelis, Schultens "[vel] evanescitis", Montanus, Bolducius, Beza, Mercerus, Drusius, Piscator, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it - You have had an opportunity of tracing the proofs of the wisdom of God in his works.
Why then are ye thus altogether vain - Why is it that you maintain such opinions - that you evince no more knowledge of his government and plans - that you argue so inconclusively about him and his administration! Why, since you have had an opportunity of observing the course of events, do you maintain that suffering is necessarily a proof of guilt, and that God deals with all people, in this life, according to their character? A close observation of the course of events would have taught you otherwise. Job proceeds to state what he supposes to be the exact truth on the subject, and particularly aims, in the following chapter, to show that the ways of God are inscrutable, and that we cannot be expected to comprehend them, and are not competent to pronounce upon them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 27:12. Ye yourselves have seen it] Your own experience and observation have shown you that the righteous are frequently in affliction, and the wicked in affluence.
Why then are ye thus altogether vain? — The original is very emphatical: הבל תהבלו hebel tehbalu, and well expressed by Mr. Good: "Why then should ye thus babble babblings!" It our language would allow it, we might say vanitize vanity.
