Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people— No doubt knowledge is yours; perfect wisdom dwells with you!
No doubt but ye are the people— No doubt knowledge is yours; perfect wisdom dwells with you!
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 ear...
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 sarca...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wise...
NO DOUBT, &C. Figure of speech _Eironeia._ App-6....
_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 _right_people, persons worthy of the name of "people;" rather "the...
G. COURAGEOUS CONFRONTATIONJOB'S RESPONSE (Job 12:1, Job 14:22) 1. He ridicules the wisdom and judgment of his friends. (Job 12:1-6) TEXT 12:1-6 12 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 No doubt but ye ar...
_NO DOUBT BUT YE ARE THE PEOPLE, AND WISDOM SHALL DIE WITH YOU._ Wisdom shall die with you! - Ironical. As if all the wisdom in the world was concentrated in them, and would expire when they expired....
A sarcastic allusion to the omniscience of the friends: YE _are_ THE PEOPLE the only wise ones....
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisd...
Zophar said that he knew some secrets about wisdom (Job 11:6). But Job did not agree. He thought that Zophar’s advice was too simple. Job even said that everybody knows such things. Anybody can say th...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם ־עָ֑ם וְ֝ עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּ
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his...
Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
No doubt but ye [are] the people, and (a) wisdom shall die with you. (a) Because you do not feel what you speak, you think the whole stands in words, and so flatter yourselves as though no one else k...
_You. Hebrew, "truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" This irony is very sharp. (Calmet) --- "Are you alone men? or shall?" &c. (Septuagint; Syriac)_...
(1) В¶ And Job answered and said, (2) No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. (3) But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 subli...
No doubt but ye [are] the people, and wisdom shall die with you. Ver. 2. _No doubt but ye are the people_] The select peculiar people, the only ones, as a man is put for a good man, Jeremiah 5:1, a w...
_No doubt but ye are the people_ You, of all people, are the most eminent for wisdom; the only men living of distinguished knowledge and prudence. You have engrossed all the reason of mankind, and eac...
THE STRANGE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE GODLESS. If Zophar's arguments had been valid and Job's suffering was to be regarded as the direct punishment for a specific sin, then his faith in the justice of God...
No doubt but ye are the people, that is, the right kind, the representative men, AND WISDOM SHALL DIE WITH YOU, since, by their own statements, they possessed it all, and no one dared to differ with t...
JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied that h...
1-5 Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; th...
YE ARE THE PEOPLE; you three, and you only, are _the people_, i.e. people of all people for eminency of wisdom, the only company of reasonable creatures; all others are but fools or beasts: you have e...
Job 12:2 doubt H551 people H5971 wisdom H2451 die H4191 (H8799) ye are the people - Job 6:24-25,...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the fo...
_But I have understanding as well as you._ THE EFFECT OF THE FRIENDS’ SPEECHES UPON JOB The whole world, Job feels, is against him, and he is left forlorn and solitary, unpitied in his misery, unguid...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:2 Job reveals his frustration through sarcasm. Responding perhaps to Zophar’s wish that God would tell Job “the secrets of wisdom” (Job 11:5), Job says, “wisdom will die w
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 6:5; Isaiah 5:21; Job 11:12; Job 11:
Ye — You have engrossed all the reason of mankind; and each of you has as much wisdom as an whole people put together. All the wisdom which is in the world, lives in you, and will be utterly lost when...