“Job wants to reveal their wrong perceptions with the words, "But I have understanding as well as you," and still I do not think the same thoughts as you. Or do you think that your thinking is unsurpassed? I am reasonable too, and reason is not different from reason, but the difference is in the application. So it is s…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 12:3
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3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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1And Job answered and said,
2No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
— Job 12:3 —
4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.