Job 15:9
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
In Context
8Dost thou hearken in the council of God? And dost thou restrain 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; yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Job 26:3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
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 →