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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 knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us? 10Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father. Are 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? 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
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הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:11
- Job 5:8But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
- Job 11:13If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement;
- 2 Corinthians 7:6But he who encourages those that are [brought] low, [even] God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus;
- Job 15:8Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
- Job 13:2What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
- 1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micah upon the cheek, and said, Where now went the Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak to thee?
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
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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
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