Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 13:2
What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
What ye know … – See the note at Job 12:3.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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 comments on Job 12:3].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
XIII.
(2) I am not inferior unto you.I fall not short of you. But it is this very sense of the inscrutableness of Gods 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.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
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,” Phi 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.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Job 12:3, Job 15:8, Job 15:9, Job 34:35, Job 35:16, Job 37:2, Job 40:4, Job 40:5, Job 42:7, 1Co 8:1, 1Co 8:2, 2Co 11:4, 2Co 11:5, 2Co 11:16-18, 2Co 12:11
Reciprocal: Job 6:13 – and is wisdom Job 15:2 – a wise man Job 15:11 – is there Job 34:16 – General Luk 1:37 – with