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Job 12:1-3
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A living joke

12 Job responded:

2 Surely you are the people,
    and wisdom will die with you.
3 I am also intelligent;
    I’m not inferior to you.
    Who isn’t like these people?[a]

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  1. Job 12:3 Heb lacks people.
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Job 12:1-3
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12 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?

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Job 12:1-3
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Job

12 Then Job replied:

2 “Doubtless you are the only people who matter,
    and wisdom will die with you!(A)
3 But I have a mind as well as you;
    I am not inferior to you.
    Who does not know all these things?(B)

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