Job 12:3
Good News Translation
But I have as much sense as you have; I am in no way inferior to you; everyone knows all that you have said.

New Revised Standard Version
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Contemporary English Version
But I know as much as you do, and so does everyone else.

New American Bible
But I have intelligence as well as you; I do not fall short of you; for who does not know such things as these?

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?

But I have

Job 13:2-5 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you. . . .

Proverbs 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be made like him.

2 Corinthians 11:5,21-23 For I suppose that I have done nothing less than the great apostles. . . .

understanding.

Job 6:6,7 Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death? . . .

Job 26:2,3 Whose helper art thou? is it of him that is weak? and dost thou hold up the arm of him that has no strength? . . .

Context
Job Responds to Zophar
2Are you then men alone, and shall wisdom die with you? 3I also have a heart as well as you: for who is ignorant of these things, which you know?4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.…
Cross References
Job 13:2
According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

Job 15:9
What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?

Job 12:2
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