New Living Translation
Job 15:7
7“Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?
Job 15:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
- New International Version (NIV)“Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
Context of Job 15:7
5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception. 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you. “Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made? 8Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom? 9What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?
Read all of Job 15Job 15:7 word by word
הֲרִאישׁ֣וֹן אָ֭דָם תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וְלִפְנֵ֖י גְבָע֣וֹת חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:7
- Job 15:10On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!
- Job 12:12Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old.
- Genesis 4:1Now Adam had sexual relations with his wife, Eve, and she became pregnant. When she gave birth to Cain, she said, “With the Lord’s help, I have produced a man!”
- Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.
- Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.
- Proverbs 8:22“The Lord formed me from the beginning, before he created anything else.
Commentaries on Job 15:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Art thou the first man that was born? - Literally, "Wert thou born before Adam?" Art thou in the pristine state of purity and innocence? Or art thou like Adam in his first state? It does not become the fallen descendant of a fallen parent to talk as thou dost. Made before the hills? - Did God create thee the beginning of his ways? or wert thou the first intelligent creature which his hands have formed?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Art thou the first man that was born? - Hast thou lived ever since the creation, and treasured up all the wisdom of past times, that thou dost now speak so arrogantly and confidently? This question was asked, because, in the estimation of Eliphaz and his friends, wisdom was supposed to be connected with long life, and with an opportunity for extended and varied observation; see Job 15:10. Job they regarded as comparatively a young man. Wast thou made…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8When the Lord later gave a similar challenge, Job found it convincing (38:1–11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. That is, Art thou wisdom personified? Wisdom existed before the hills; that is, the eternal Son of God (Pr 8:25; Psa 90:2). Wast thou in existence before Adam? The farther back one existed, the nearer he was to the Eternal Wisdom.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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