New English Translation
Job 15:11
11Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to 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?
- 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 do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand? 10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you? 12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
Read all of Job 15Job 15:11 word by word
הַמְעַ֣ט מִ֭מְּךָ תַּנְחֻמ֣וֹת אֵ֑ל וְ֝דָבָ֗ר לָאַ֥ט עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:11
- Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.
- Job 11:13“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- 2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 13:2What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you!
- 1 Kings 22:24Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, “Which way did the Lord’s spirit go when he went 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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