Revised Version 1895
Job 15:12
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
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
10With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father. 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee? Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink? 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth. 14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ לִבֶּ֑ךָ וּֽמַה־יִּרְזְמ֥וּן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 15:12
- Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
- James 1:14but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
- Job 17:2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
- Psalms 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Proverbs 6:13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his 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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