Job 15:10

Job 15:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
• New International Version (NIV)The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Much older than your father.

Context of Job 15:10

8Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself? 9What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us? Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father. 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee? 12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

Job 15:10 word by word

גַּם־שָׂ֣ב גַּם־יָשִׁ֣ישׁ בָּ֑נוּ כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1

Cross-references for Job 15:10

• Job 8:8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
• Job 12:20He depriveth of speech the trusty, and taketh away the judgment of the elders;
• Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.
• Deuteronomy 32:7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of generation to generation; Ask thy father, and he will shew thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
• Proverbs 16:31The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.

Commentaries on Job 15:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10With us are both the gray-headed - One copy of the Chaldee Targum paraphrases the verse thus: "Truly Eliphaz the hoary-headed, and Bildad the long-lived, are among us; and Zophar, who in age surpasseth thy father." It is very likely that Eliphaz refers to himself and his friends in this verse, and not either to the old men of their tribes, or to the masters by whom they themselves were instructed. Eliphaz seems to have been the eldest of these sages; and…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10With us are both the gray headed - That is, some of us who are here are much older than thy father; or we express the sentiments of such aged men. Job had admitted Job 12:12, that with the aged was wisdom, and in length of days understanding; and Eliphaz here urges that on that principle he and his friends had a claim to be heard. It would seem from this, that Job was very far from being regarded as an old man, and would probably be esteemed as in middle…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. 1010. On our side, thinking with us are the aged. Job had admitted that wisdom is with them (Job 12:12). Eliphaz seems to have been himself older than Job; perhaps the other two were also (Job 32:6). Job, in Job 30:1, does not refer to his three friends; it therefore forms no objection. The Arabs are proud of fulness of years.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 15:10

• Pride

In the dictionaries

• Age
• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Job, Book of
• Wisdom

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