What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Parallel translations
- WEB What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
- KJV What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- NKJV What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- NASB “What you know I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- NLT I know as much as you do. You are no better than I am.
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Quick answer
Job asserts equality with his friends in understanding. He refuses to be treated as their inferior.
Overview
Job declares, 'What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.' His friends have spoken as if from superior wisdom, but Job rejects this posture. His point is not arrogance but that their conventional theology cannot account for his suffering, so their condescension is unwarranted.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Job 12:3But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
- 2 Cor 11:16–18I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
- Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- 2 Cor 12:11I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
- 2 Cor 11:4–5For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
- Job 34:35‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
- 1 Cor 8:1–2Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- Job 40:4–5“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
- Job 37:2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
- Job 15:8–9Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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