Job 15:18

Job 15:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
• New International Version (NIV)what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
• English Standard Version (ESV)(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
• New King James Version (NKJV)What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,

Context of Job 15:18

16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water! 17I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it; 19Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them): 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Job 15:18 word by word

אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• wiseחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450
• toldנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
• fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1

Cross-references for Job 15:18

• Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
• Job 8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out
• Psalms 71:18Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
• Psalms 78:3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
• Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Commentaries on Job 15:18

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Which wise men have told from their fathers - Which they have received from their ancestors and communicated to others. Knowledge among the ancients was communicated chiefly by tradition from father to son. They had few or no written records, and hence, they embodied the results of their observation in brief, sententious maxims, and transmitted them from one generation to another. And have not hid it - They have freely communicated the result of their…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-35Verses 17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-19when no foreigner passed among them: Eliphaz's contempt for foreign ideas is ironic. Wisdom literature is more international than other Old Testament writings.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. Rather, "and which as handed down from their fathers, they have not concealed."Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Wise men
• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Job, Book of
• 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