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What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
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An Assertion of Equality
Commentators agree that Job is directly asserting his intellectual and spiritual equality with his friends. He claims his knowledge of God's attributes—His sovereignty, justice, and providential workings—is in no way inferior to theirs. As scholars like Gill and Barnes point out, this is a continuation of the argument from the previous chapter, not a new claim.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What you know ... - See the note at Job 12:3.
19th Century
Anglican
I am not inferior unto you. — I fall not short of you. But it is this very sense of the inscrutableness of God’s…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What you know, [the same] do I know also Concerning God and his perfections, his sovereignty, holiness, justice, wis…
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With self-importance, Job declared that he did not need to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves and belittle thei…
13th Century
Catholic
After Job showed that the excellence of God's power could be known by experience, he concludes, “Behold, my eye has seen all these things and m…
