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

16So he certainly will not trust people. People are wicked and cannot think true thoughts. They like to do evil things, as if they are drinking water! 17So listen to me. I will explain something to you. I will tell you what I have seen. These are things that wise men have taught me. They did not hide the truth. They learned these things from their ancestors. 19They were the people who received the land. No foreigners were there to deceive them. 20They knew this: A wicked person will have trouble all his life. Anyone who is cruel will suffer every year that he lives.

Job 15:18 word by word

אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Which wiseחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450
• men have toldנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
• from their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• and have not hidכָּחַדkâchad · to hideH3582

Cross-references for Job 15:18

• Job 15:10The old men agree with us. They are older and wiser even than your father.
• Job 8:8Think about the people who lived before us. Study the things that our ancestors learned.
• Psalms 71:18And even when I am old and my hair is grey, do not turn away from me, God. I need to tell the people still to be born about your great strength. My descendants need to know about your power.
• Psalms 78:3We have heard about these things and we know them. Our ancestors have told them to us,
• Isaiah 38:19It is those people who are alive that can thank you. And I am doing it today. Fathers tell their children that they can trust you.

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