| Geneva Study Bible But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? Wesley's Notes 12:3 But - In these things, which he speaks not in a way of boasting, but for the just vindication both of himself, and of that cause of God, which for the substance of it he maintained rightly, as God himself attests, chap.42:7. Such things - The truth is, neither you nor I have any reason to be puffed up with our knowledge of these things: for the most barbarous nations know that God is infinite in wisdom, and power, and justice. But this is not the question between you and me. King James Translators' Notes understanding: Heb. an heart I am...: Heb. I fall not lower than you who...: Heb. with whom are not such as these? Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3. not inferior-not vanquished in argument and "wisdom" (Job 13:2). such things as these-such commonplace maxims as you so pompously adduce. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 12:1-5 Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their own wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, and to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; this is our folly; yet here was colour for this charge. He suspected the true cause of their conduct to be, that they despised him who was fallen into poverty. It is the way of the world. Even the just, upright man, if he comes under a cloud, is looked upon with contempt. | 
