New International Version
Job 15:17
17“Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
Job 15:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
- English Standard Version (ESV)"I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,
- New Living Translation (NLT)“If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience.
Context of Job 15:17
15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, 16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water! “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen, 18what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors 19(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
Read all of Job 15Job 15:17 word by word
אֲחַוְךָ֥ שְֽׁמַֽע־לִ֑י וְזֶֽה־חָ֝זִ֗יתִי וַאֲסַפֵּֽרָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:17
- Job 5:27“We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself.”
- Job 13:5If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 33:1“But now, Job, listen to my words; pay attention to everything I say.
- Job 34:2“Hear my words, you wise men; listen to me, you men of learning.
- Job 36:2“Bear with me a little longer and I will show you that there is more to be said in God’s behalf.
Commentaries on Job 15:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare - Eliphaz is now about to quote a whole collection of wise sayings from the ancients; all good enough in themselves, but sinfully misapplied to the case of Job.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17I will show thee - The remainder of this chapter is a violent declamation, designed to overwhelm Job with the proofs of personal guilt. Eliphaz professes to urge nothing which had not been handed down from his ancestors, and was the result of careful observation. What he says is made up of apothegms and maxims that were regarded as containing the results of ancient wisdom, all meaning that God would punish the wicked, or that the wicked would be treated…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. 1717. In direct contradiction of Job's position (Job 12:6, &c.), that the lot of the wicked was the most prosperous here, Eliphaz appeals (1) to his own experience, (2) to the wisdom of the ancients.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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