12 You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
12 The evidence is right before you. You can all see it for yourselves, so why do you keep talking nonsense?
12 Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?
12 But you have seen all this, yet you say all these useless things to me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:12
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?