What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
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What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
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What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you.
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Passages linked to Job 13:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
- Job 42:7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
- 2 Corinthians 11:16-18 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
- Job 34:35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
- Job 35:16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
- Job 37:2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
- Job 40:4-5 “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
- 1 Corinthians 8:1-2 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
- 2 Corinthians 11:4-5 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough. For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
- Job 15:8-9 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I…
Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
Ver. 2. What ye know, the same do I know also] Heb. According to your knowledge I also know. This may seem an unseemly boast; which, if his friends had taxed him for, he might have answered, as Paul did in a like case, Ye have compelled me, 2Co 11:5. The rule is, "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves," Php 2:3. Non est tamen prodenda Dei veritas, aut integritas nostra, &c., Nevertheless, no man ought to betray the truth, or his own integrity, lest he should be counted contentious (Merlin in loc.). See Job 12:3, where we have the same in effect as here; whence some do gather that Job’s friends had a very high opinion of their own knowledge, and a very low one of Job’s. He that is thus proud of his knowledge, the devil careth not how much he knoweth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain What ye know, the same do I know also,....…
What ye know, the same do I know also,.... Concerning God and his perfections, his sovereignty, holiness, justice, wisdom, power, goodness, &c. and concerning his providences, and his dealings with men in an ordinary or in an extraordinary way:
I am not inferior unto you; as might be deduced from the preceding discourse; See Gill on Job 12:3.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain What ye know ... - See the note at…
What ye know ... - See the note at Job 12:3.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) I am not inferior unto you.—I fall not…
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(2) I am not inferior unto you.—I fall not short of you. But it is this very sense of the inscrutableness of God’s dealings that makes him long to come face to face with God, and to reason with Him on the first principles of His action. As it is manifestly the traditionally orthodox position that his friends assume, it is refreshing to find that there may be some truth spoken for God by what is not so reckoned, and that more ultimate truth may exist in honest doubt than is sometimes found in the profession of a loosely-held creed. So the Laureate:
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“There lives more truth in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain What ye know, the same do I know also.…
What ye know, the same do I know also. Job"s friends have claimed to instruct him and set him right, on the ground of their age and experience, (Job_4:8 Job_5:27 Job_8:8-10) He protests that, in the matters on which they have lectured him, they have no advantage over himself he knows all that they know in truth, the knowledge is open to all. (see Job_12:3) I am not inferior unto you. An exact repetition of the second clause of Job_12:3.
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