Job 15:9
What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
In Context
8Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.
Cross References
Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?
Job 26:3How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
2 Corinthians 11:5For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.
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 →