Job 12:2
New International Version
“Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!

New Living Translation
“You people really know everything, don’t you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!

English Standard Version
“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Berean Standard Bible
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

King James Bible
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

New King James Version
“No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!

New American Standard Bible
“Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

NASB 1995
“Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

NASB 1977
“Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

Legacy Standard Bible
“Truly then you are the people, And with you wisdom will die!

Amplified Bible
“No doubt you are the [only wise] people [in the world], And wisdom will die with you!

Christian Standard Bible
No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

American Standard Version
No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“In truth, you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

Contemporary English Version
You think you are so great, with all the answers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?

English Revised Version
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"You certainly are [wise] people, and when you die, wisdom will die.

International Standard Version
"Truly, you are the people and wisdom will die with you!

JPS Tanakh 1917
No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

Literal Standard Version
“Truly—you [are] the people, and wisdom dies with you.

Majority Standard Bible
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

New American Bible
No doubt you are the people with whom wisdom shall die!

NET Bible
"Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

New Revised Standard Version
“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

New Heart English Bible
"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Webster's Bible Translation
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

World English Bible
“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

Young's Literal Translation
Truly -- ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

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Context
Job Responds to Zophar
1Then Job answered: 2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! 3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?…

Cross References
Job 12:1
Then Job answered:

Job 17:10
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.


Treasury of Scripture

No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

ye are the people

Job 6:24,25
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred…

Job 8:8-10
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: …

Job 11:2,6,12
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Truly
אָ֭מְנָם (’ā·mə·nām)
Conjunction
Strong's 551: Verily, truly

then
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַתֶּם־ (’at·tem-)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are the people,
עָ֑ם (‘ām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and wisdom
חָכְמָֽה׃ (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

will die
תָּמ֥וּת (tā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

with you!
וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם (wə·‘im·mā·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with


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