English Standard Version
Job 15:12
12Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
Job 15:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
- New International Version (NIV)Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why does your heart carry you away, And what do your eyes wink at,
- New Living Translation (NLT)What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,
Context of Job 15:12
10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. 11Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? Why 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? 14What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Read all of Job 15Job 15:12 word by word
מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:12
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?
- Acts 8:22Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
- James 1:14But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.
- Job 17:2Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
- Psalms 35:19Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
- Proverbs 6:13winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,
Commentaries on Job 15:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? - Why is it that thou dost conceive and entertain such high sentiments of thyself? And what do thy eyes wink at - With what splendid opinion of thyself is thine eye dazzled? Perhaps there is an allusion here to that sparkling in the eye which is excited by sensations of joy and pleasing objects of sight, or to that furious rolling of the eyes observed in deranged persons. Rosenmuller translates thus: - Quo te tuus…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? - Why do you allow your feelings to control you in spite of the decisions of the understanding? Eliphaz means to represent him as wholly under the influence of passion, instead of looking calmly and cooly at things as they were, and listening to the results of past experience and observation. And what do thy eyes wink at - This expression has given considerable perplexity to commentators. Rosenmuller (and after him…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12why do your eyes flash: This sentence might be a metaphor for unbelief, or it could mean winking like a person planning a trick or someone blinking in disbelief.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. wink--that is, why do thy eyes evince pride? (Pr 6:13; Psa 35:19).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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