Job 15:18

Job 15:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
• New International Version (NIV)what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
• English Standard Version (ESV)(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
• New King James Version (NKJV)What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,

Context of Job 15:18

16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness! 17“If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience. And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers— 19from those to whom the land was given long before any foreigners arrived. 20“The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives. Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.

Job 15:18 word by word

אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִ֥ים יַגִּ֑ידוּ וְלֹ֥א כִֽ֝חֲד֗וּ מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Which wiseחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450
• men have toldנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
• from their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• and have not hidכָּחַדkâchad · to hideH3582

Cross-references for Job 15:18

• Job 15:10On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!
• Job 8:8“Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors.
• Psalms 71:18Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.
• Psalms 78:3stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
• Isaiah 38:19Only the living can praise you as I do today. Each generation tells of your faithfulness to the next.

Commentaries on Job 15:18

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Which wise men have told from their fathers - Which they have received from their ancestors and communicated to others. Knowledge among the ancients was communicated chiefly by tradition from father to son. They had few or no written records, and hence, they embodied the results of their observation in brief, sententious maxims, and transmitted them from one generation to another. And have not hid it - They have freely communicated the result of their…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. 1818. Rather, "and which as handed down from their fathers, they have not concealed."Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Wise men
• Conceive
• Restrain
• Secret
• Unprofitable
• Wait
• Wander
• Eliphaz (2)
• Job, Book of
• 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