New English Translation
Job 15:12
12Why has your heart carried 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,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why does your heart carry 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,
Context of Job 15:12
10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. 11Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you? Why 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? 14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
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מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:12
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land?
- Acts 8:22Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
- James 1:14But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.
- Job 17:2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
- Psalms 35:19Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!
- Proverbs 6:13he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
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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