Job 13:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

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כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם

daʻath

H1847

“like/as · knowledge · your”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 93× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 2:9

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3045

TWOT: 848c

knowledge - knowledge, perception, skill - discernment, understanding, wisdom

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
1 noun
2 pronouns
1 preposition
1 adverb
1 particle

Verb forms

יָדַ֣עְתִּי Qal · Perfect
נֹפֵ֖ל Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Job 13:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
Job 42:7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
2 Corinthians 11:16–18 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
2 Corinthians 12:11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
Job 34:35 'Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.'
Job 35:16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."
Job 37:2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, The sound that goes out of his mouth.
Job 40:4–5 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

1 Corinthians 8:1–2 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
2 Corinthians 11:4–5 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different gospel, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
Job 15:8–9 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Job 13:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כְּֽ֭דַעְתְּכֶם יָדַ֣עְתִּי גַם אָ֑נִי לֹא נֹפֵ֖ל אָנֹכִ֣י מִכֶּֽם

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Job 13:2 Septuagint · lemma form

καί οἶδα ὅσος καί σύ ἐπίσταμαι καί οὐ ἀσύνετος εἰμί σύ

And I know all that you⌃ too know; and I have not less understanding than you.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Job 13:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.

Ver. 2. What ye know, the same do I know also] Heb. According to your knowledge I also know. This may seem an unseemly boast; which, if his friends had taxed him for, he might have answered, as Paul did in a like case, Ye have compelled me, 2Co 11:5. The rule is, "Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves," Php 2:3. Non est tamen prodenda Dei veritas, aut integritas nostra, &c., Nevertheless, no man ought to betray the truth, or his own integrity, lest he should be counted contentious (Merlin in loc.). See Job 12:3, where we have the same in effect as here; whence some do gather that Job’s friends had a very high opinion of their own knowledge, and a very low one of Job’s. He that is thus proud of his knowledge, the devil careth not how much he knoweth.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

XIII.

(2) I am not inferior unto you.—I fall not short of you. But it is this very sense of the inscrutableness of God’s dealings that makes him long to come face to face with God, and to reason with Him on the first principles of His action. As it is manifestly the traditionally orthodox position that his friends assume, it is refreshing to find that there may be some truth spoken for God by what is not so reckoned, and that more ultimate truth may exist in honest doubt than is sometimes found in the profession of a loosely-held creed. So the Laureate:

“There lives more truth in honest doubt,

Believe me, than in half the creeds.”

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

What ye know, the same do I know also,.... Concerning God and his perfections, his sovereignty, holiness, justice, wisdom, power, goodness, &c. and concerning his providences, and his dealings with men in an ordinary or in an extraordinary way:

I am not inferior unto you; as might be deduced from the preceding discourse; See Gill on Job 12:3.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What ye know ... - See the note at Job 12:3.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

What ye know, the same do I know also. Job"s friends have claimed to instruct him and set him right, on the ground of their age and experience, (Job_4:8 Job_5:27 Job_8:8-10) He protests that, in the matters on which they have lectured him, they have no advantage over himself he knows all that they know in truth, the knowledge is open to all. (see Job_12:3) I am not inferior unto you. An exact repetition of the second clause of Job_12:3.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Job, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is daʻath (“knowledge”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “knowledge” (daʻath) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Job 12:3, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«יָדַ֣עְתִּי» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.