English Standard Version
Job 15:11
11Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough?
Context of Job 15:11
9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? 12Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your 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 5:8"As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
- Job 11:13"If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- 2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,
- Job 15:8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- 1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?"
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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