Job 15:12
Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
In Context
11Is it so important that God should console you? But your own depraved words prevent this.
13Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
Cross References
Job 17:2I have not sinned, yet my eye remains in bitterness.
Proverbs 6:13he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.
Mark 7:21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Acts 8:22And so, repent from this, your wickedness, and beg God, so that perhaps this plan of your heart might be forgiven you.
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 →