Job 15:7
Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
In Context
6Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.
8Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
Cross References
Genesis 4:1And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.
Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.
Proverbs 8:25before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →