Job 15:11
Is it so important that God should console you? But your own depraved words prevent this.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
In Context
10There are with us both aged and ancient men, even more senior than your fathers.
12Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?
Cross References
1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, drew near and struck Micaiah on the jaw, and he said, “So then, has the Spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to you?”
Job 11:13But you have fortified your heart and extended your hands to him.
Job 15:8Have you heard the intentions of God, and will his wisdom be inferior to you?
Psalms 77:3We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us.
2 Corinthians 7:6But God, who consoles the humble, consoled us by the arrival of Titus,
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 →