Job 12:1

Job’s Fourth Speech

1 Then Job answered and said,

Job 12:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 12:1

And Job answered and said.
] In reply to Zophar, and in defence of himself; what is recorded in this and the two following chapters.

Job 12:1 In-Context

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 "Truly indeed you [are the] people, and wisdom will die with you.

3 {I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}?

4 I am a laughingstock to my friends: '[He] calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man [is] a laughingstock.

5 {Those at ease have contempt} for [the] thought of {disaster}, [but it is] ready for those unstable of foot.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "And"