God’s Word Translation
Job 15:18
18I’ll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors.
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
16how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness like water. 17“I’ll tell you; listen to me! I’ll relate what I have seen. I’ll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors. 19(The land was given to them alone, and no stranger passed through their land.) 20“The wicked person is tortured all his days. Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person.
Read all of Job 15Job 15:18 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:18
- Job 15:10Both the old and the gray-haired are among us. They are older than your father.
- Job 8:8“Ask the people of past generations. Find out what their ancestors had learned.
- Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me live to tell the people of this age what your strength has accomplished, to tell about your power to all who will come.
- Psalms 78:3things that we have heard and known about, things that our parents have told us.
- Isaiah 38:19Those who are living praise you as I do today. Fathers make your faithfulness known to their children.
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
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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