2 "Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
2 "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
2 "I'm sure you speak for all the experts, and when you die there'll be no one left to tell us how to live.
2 "No doubt you are the people, And wisdom will die with you!
2 "You people really know everything, don't you? And when you die, wisdom will die with you!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 12:2
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.