3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know all these things?
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
3 But don't forget that I also have a brain - I don't intend to play second fiddle to you. It doesn't take an expert to know these things.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Indeed, who does not know such things as these?
3 Well, I know a few things myself- and you're no better than I am. Who doesn't know these things you've been saying?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 12:3
Commentary on Job 12:1-5
(Read Job 12:1-5)
Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; this is our folly; yet here was colour for this charge. He suspected the true cause of their conduct to be, that they despised him who was fallen into poverty. It is the way of the world. Even the just, upright man, if he comes under a cloud, is looked upon with contempt.