Job 12:2 Cross References - ECB

² Truly you are the people; and with you, wisdom dies.

²⁴ Teach me, and I hush; and I discern wherein I have inadvertently erred. ²⁵ How reinforcing the sayings of straightness! And what does your reproving reprove?

⁸ I beseech you, enquire of the first age; prepare yourself to the probing of their fathers; ⁹ - for we are of yesterday and know naught, because our days on earth are a shadow. ¹⁰ Teach they not and say to you? - and utter utterances from their heart?

² Answer we not this abundance of words? - justify a man full of lips?

⁶ and tells you the concealments of wisdom, that they are a double substance! Know that Elohah exacts your perversity of you.

¹² For empty man disheartens, and humanity births as the colt of a wild runner.

² and says, Answers the wise knowledge of spirit/wind? - fills his belly with the easterly?

⁴ For you hide their heart from comprehension; so you exalt them not.

¹⁰ But as for you all, return and come, I beseech; for I find none wise among you.

³ I hear the discipline of my reproach and my spirit of discernment answers.

⁷ I say, Days word; and abundance of years make wisdom known. ⁸ Surely there is a spirit in man; and the breath of Shadday gives discernment. ⁹ Neither the great enwisen nor the aged discern judgment. ¹⁰ So I say, Hearken to me; I also show my knowledge. ¹¹ Behold, I awaited your words; I gave ear to your reasons as you probed utterances: ¹² yes, I discerned you; and behold, none of you reproved Iyob or answered his sayings: ¹³ lest you say, We have found out wisdom; El disperses him - not man.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own eyes; and the poor who discern, search him out.

²¹ Ho to them, the wise in their own eyes, and discerning in their own face!

¹⁰ We are fools for sake of the Messiah - and you thoughtful in Messiah; we are frail - and you mighty; you glorious - and we dishonored.

⁵ I word to shame you. Is it thus, that there are no wise among you? - not even one able to discern among his brothers?