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

7Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? 8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? 10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father. 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Job 15:9 word by word

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

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Cross-references for Job 15:9

• Job 13:2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
• Job 26:3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!
• 2 Corinthians 10:7Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
• 2 Corinthians 11:5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest 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