Job 15:9

Job 15:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
• New International Version (NIV)What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
• English Standard Version (ESV)What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
• New King James Version (NKJV)What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?

Context of Job 15:9

7“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man], Or were you created before the hills? 8Do you hear the secret counsel of God, And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself? What 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. 11Are 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?

Job 15:9 word by word

מַה־יָּ֭דַעְתָּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע תָּ֝בִ֗ין וְֽלֹא־עִמָּ֥נוּ הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• What knowestיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• understandestבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995

Cross-references for Job 15:9

• Job 13:2What you know I also know; I am not inferior to you.
• Job 26:3How you have counseled the one who has no wisdom! And how abundantly you have provided sound wisdom and helpful insight!
• 2 Corinthians 10:7You are looking [only] at the outward appearance of things. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, he should reflect and consider this, that just as he is Christ’s, so too are we.
• 2 Corinthians 11:5Yet I consider myself in no way inferior to the [so-called] super-apostles.

Commentaries on Job 15:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9What knowest thou - Is it likely that thy intellect is greater than ours; and that thou hast cultivated it better than we have done ours? What understandest thou - Or, Dost thou understand any thing, and it is not with us? Show us any point of knowledge possessed by thyself, of which we are ignorant.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9What knowest thou that we know not? - What pretensions or claims to wisdom have you which we have not? We have had, at least, equal advantages, and may be presumed to know as much as you.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10Aged men who are gray-haired claim they alone have wisdom (8:8–10; 12:20; see 12:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. in us--or, "with us," Hebraism for "we are aware of."Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:9

• Pride

In the dictionaries

• 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