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- Job
- Chapter 12
- Verse 2
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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