Job 12:2
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Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?

ye are the people

Job 6:24,25 Teach me, and I will hold my peace: and if I have been ignorant of any thing, instruct me. . . .

Job 8:8-10 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: . . .

Job 11:2,6,12 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified? . . .

Job 15:2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

Job 17:4 Thou hast set their heart far from understanding, therefore they shall not be exalted.

Job 20:3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

Job 32:7-13 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. . . .

Proverbs 28:11 The rich man seemeth to himself wise: but the poor man that is prudent shall search him out.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.

1 Corinthians 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man that is able to judge between his brethren?

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
1Then Job answered, and said: 2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you?3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?…
Cross References
Job 12:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Job 17:10
Wherefore be you all converted, and come, and I shall not find among you any wise man.

Lexicon
“Truly
אָ֭מְנָם (’ā·mə·nām)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 551: Verily, truly

then
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַתֶּם־ (’at·tem-)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are the people,
עָ֑ם (‘ām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and wisdom
חָכְמָֽה׃ (ḥāḵ·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2451: Wisdom

will die
תָּמ֥וּת (tā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill

with you!
וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם (wə·‘im·mā·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with


Additional Translations
“Truly then you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

No doubt but ye are the people, And wisdom shall die with you.

So then ye alone are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Truly -- ye are the people, And with you doth wisdom die.
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