What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Parallel translations
- WEB What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
- BSB What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to 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 have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
- 2 Cor 11:16–18I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
- Job 42:7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
- 2 Cor 12:11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
- 2 Cor 11:4–5For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
- Job 34:35Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- 1 Cor 8:1–2Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
- Job 40:4–5Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
- Job 37:2Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
- Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Job 15:8–9Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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