Job 15:8
Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
In Context
7Wast thou born as the first man? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
9What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?
Cross References
Job 11:6And that he would declare unto thee the secrets of wisdom; for it is double to that which is really in our possession: and thou wouldst experience that God overlooketh unto thee much of thy iniquity.
Job 13:5Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.
Psalms 25:14The secret counsel of the Lord is for those that fear him, and his covenant—to make it known to them.
Jeremiah 23:18For who hath stood in the secret counsel of the Lord, that he could perceive and hear his word? who hath listened to his word and heard it?
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 →