New English Translation
Job 15:18
18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of 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 man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! 17“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, 19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. 20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
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אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:18
- Job 15:10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
- Job 8:8“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;
- Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.
- Psalms 78:3What we have heard and learned – that which our ancestors have told us –
- Isaiah 38:19The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
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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