New Living Translation
Job 15:12
12What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,
Job 15:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
- New International Version (NIV)Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- 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,
Context of Job 15:12
10On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father! 11“Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough? What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision, 13that you turn against God and say all these evil things? 14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?
Read all of Job 15Job 15:12 word by word
מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:12
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
- Acts 5:3Then Peter said, “Ananias, why have you let Satan fill your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself.
- Acts 8:22Repent of your wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive your evil thoughts,
- James 1:14Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
- Job 17:2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
- Psalms 35:19Don’t let my treacherous enemies rejoice over my defeat. Don’t let those who hate me without cause gloat over my sorrow.
- Proverbs 6:13signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of 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
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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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