Job 15:9
What knowest thou, that we do not know? what understandest thou, which is not with us?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
In Context
8Hast thou listened to the secret counsel of God? and is wisdom therefore of little esteem with thee?
10Both the grayheaded and the very aged are among us,— richer than thy father in days.
Cross References
Job 12:3I also have sense like you; I do not fall short compared with you: and who possesseth not such things as these?
Job 26:3How hast thou counselled the unwise? and what sound wisdom hast thou made known so plentifully?
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 →