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Job 12:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? "

Job 12:3

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1 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 things as these?

4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

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From This Chapter

Job 12:1

"And Job answered and said,"

Job 12:2

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

Job 12:4

"I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn."

Job 12:5

"He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease."

Job 12:6

"The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly."

Job 12:7

"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:"

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