Job 12:2 — King James Version← Study notes
“No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”
Job 12:2 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 12:27 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the only men, and wisdom shall die with you. Whosoever reckons himself to excel all men in the faculty of reason, what else does such a man but exult that he is the ‘only Man?’ And it often happens that when the mind is borne on high through pride, it is uplifted in contempt of all men, and in admiration of self. For self-applause springs up in the imagination, and folly is itself its own flatterer for singularity of wisdom. It ponders all that it has…
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