New English Translation
Job 15:8
8Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 15:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Context of Job 15:8
6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. 7“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? 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.
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הַבְס֣וֹד אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּשְׁמָ֑ע וְתִגְרַ֖ע אֵלֶ֣יךָ חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:8
- Job 11:6and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom – for true wisdom has two sides – so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins.
- Deuteronomy 29:29Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.
- Psalms 25:14The Lord’s loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.
- Proverbs 3:32for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.
- Jeremiah 23:18Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?
- Amos 3:7Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.
- Matthew 13:11He replied, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
- John 15:15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
- Romans 11:34For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
- Romans 16:25Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages,
- 1 Corinthians 2:9But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”
- Job 12:2“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
- Job 13:5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
Commentaries on Job 15:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Hast thou heard the secret of God? - "Hast thou hearkened in God's council?" Wert thou one of the celestial cabinet, when God said, Let Us make man in Our image, and in Our likeness? Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? - Dost thou wish us to understand that God's counsels were revealed to none but thyself? And dost thou desire that we should give implicit credence to whatsoever thou art pleased to speak? These are all strong sarcastic questions, and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Hast thou heard the secret of God? - literally, “in the secret of God hast thou heard” - הסוד hasôd The word rendered “secret” (סוד sôd ) means properly a “couch” or “cushion,” on which one reclines - whether for sleep or at a table, or as a divan. Hence, it means a divan, or circle of persons sitting together for familiar conversation, Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 15:17; or of judges, counsellors, or advisers for consultation, as the word “divan” is now…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The book's readers know about God's secret council (1:6–12; 2:1–6; see 1 Kings 22:19–20; Psalm 89:5–7). But Job and his friends did not.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. secret--rather, "Wast thou a listener in the secret council of God?" The Hebrew means properly the cushions of a divan on which counsellors in the East usually sit. God's servants are admitted to God's secrets (Psa 25:14; Ge 18:17; Joh 15:15). restrain--Rather, didst thou take away, or borrow, thence (namely, from the divine secret council) thy wisdom? Eliphaz in this (Job 15:8, 9) retorts Job's words upon himself (Job 12:2, 3; 13:2).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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