Job 15:12

Job 15:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
• 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,
• New Living Translation (NLT)What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,

Context of Job 15:12

10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father. 11Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you? Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth? 14“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

Job 15:12 word by word

מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Why doth thine heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• carry thee awayלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• and what do thy eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• wink atרָזַםrâzam · to flashH7335

Cross-references for Job 15:12

• Ecclesiastes 11:9You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
• Mark 7:21For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,
• Acts 5:3Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
• Acts 8:22Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.
• James 1:14but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
• Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
• Psalms 35:19Do not let those gloat over me who are my enemies without cause; do not let those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye.
• Proverbs 6:13who winks maliciously with his eye, signals with his feet and motions 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

Topics related to Job 15:12

• Mocking
• Murmuring
• Pride

In the dictionaries

• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Wink
• Eliphaz

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