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Job 12:2

Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

But I have understanding as well as you,.... A natural understanding, or an understanding of natural things, which distinguishes a man from a brute; and a spiritual understanding, an understanding…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 12:1-5

The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly.

I. He upbraids…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

ye are the people Sarcastic admiration of the wisdom of his three friends, cf. ch. Job 11:6. "The people" does not seem to mean the rightpeople, persons worthy of the name of "people;" rather "the…