New International Version
Job 15:8
8Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Job 15:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
Context of Job 15:8
6Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you. 7“Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom? 9What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have? 10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
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הַבְס֣וֹד אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּשְׁמָ֑ע וְתִגְרַ֖ע אֵלֶ֣יךָ חָכְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:8
- Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.
- Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
- Psalms 25:14The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
- Proverbs 3:32For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.
- Jeremiah 23:18But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?
- Amos 3:7Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without 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 learned, and revealed them to little children.
- Matthew 13:11He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
- John 15:15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
- Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
- Romans 16:25Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past,
- 1 Corinthians 2:9However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
- Job 12:2“Doubtless you are the only people who matter, and wisdom will die with you!
- Job 13:5If only you would be altogether 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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