Job 15:11

Job 15:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
• New International Version (NIV)Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?

Context of Job 15:11

9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us? 10Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged, Older than your father. Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you, [Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective? 12Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]? And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt], 13That you should turn your spirit against God And let such words [as you have spoken] go out of your mouth?

Job 15:11 word by word

הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• the consolationsתַּנְחוּםtanchûm tanchûm tanchûmâh · consolationH8575
• of Godאֵל'êl · GodH410
• smallמְעַטme‛aţ me‛âţ · littleH4592
• with thee? is there any secretאַט'aţ · softlyH328
• thingדָּבָרdâbâr · wordH1697

Cross-references for Job 15:11

• Job 5:8“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him, And I would commit my cause to God;
• Job 11:13“If you direct your heart [on the right path] And stretch out your hands to Him,
• 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,
• 2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who comforts and encourages the depressed and the disquieted, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.
• Job 15:8Do you hear the secret counsel of God, And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?
• Job 13:2What you know I also know; I am not inferior to you.
• 1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah approached and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

Commentaries on Job 15:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Are the consolations of God small with thee? - Various are the renderings of this verse. Mr. Good translates the verse thus: "Are then the mercies of God of no account with thee?" or, "the addresses of kindness before thee?" The Vulgate thus: - "Can it be a difficult thing for God to comfort thee? But thou hinderest this by thy intemperate speeches." The Syriac and Arabic thus: - "Remove from thee the threatenings (Arabic, reproaches) of God, and speak…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Are the consolations of God small with thee? - The “consolations of God” here refer probably to those considerations which had been suggested by Eliphaz and his friends, and which he takes to be the “consolations” which God had furnished for the afflicted. He asks whether they were regarded by Job as of little value? Whether he was not willing to take such consolations as God had provided, and to allow them to sustain him instead of permitting himself to…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. consolations--namely, the revelation which Eliphaz had stated as a consolatory reproof to Job, and which he repeats in Job 15:14. secret--Hast thou some secret wisdom and source of consolation, which makes thee disregard those suggested by me? (Job 15:8). Rather, from a different Hebrew root, Is the word of kindness or gentleness addressed by me treated by thee as valueless? [Umbreit].Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:11

• Murmuring
• Pride

In the dictionaries

• God
• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Eliphaz

Commentaries on Job 15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary