Job 12:3

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

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

Complete Jewish Bible:

But I too have a brain, as much as you, In no way am I inferior to you. Besides, who doesn't know things like these?

Berean Standard Bible:

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

American Standard Version:

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

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

But{H1571} I have understanding{H3824} as well as you; I am not inferior{H5307} to you: yea, who knoweth not such things{H3644} as these?

Cross-References (KJV):

Job 13:2

  • What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.

Job 13:5

  • O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

Job 6:6

  • Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:7

  • The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.

Proverbs 26:4

  • ¶ Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

2 Corinthians 11:5

  • ¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

2 Corinthians 11:21

  • I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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Commentary for Job 12:3

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H1571
    There are 32 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: גַּם
    Transliteration: gam
    Pronunciation: gam
    Description: by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
  2. Strong's Number: H3824
    There are 230 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: לֵבָב
    Transliteration: lêbâb
    Pronunciation: lay-bawb'
    Description: from לָבַב; used also like לֵב; the heart (as the most interior organ); [phrase] bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-) heart(-ed), midst, mind, [idiom] unawares, understanding.
  3. Strong's Number: H5307
    There are 403 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: נָפַל
    Transliteration: nâphal
    Pronunciation: naw-fal'
    Description: a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative); be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for פָּלַל), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be ([idiom] hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, [idiom] surely, throw down.
  4. Strong's Number: H3644
    There are 19 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: כְּמוֹ
    Transliteration: kᵉmôw
    Pronunciation: kem-o'
    Description: or כָּמוֹ; (compare כֵּן); a form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately as, thus, so; according to, (such) as (it were, well as), in comparison of, like (as, to, unto), thus, when, worth.