Job 15:8
Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as his counsellor? and has wisdom come only to you?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
In Context
7What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?
9For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also?
Cross References
Job 11:6Then shall he declare to you the power of wisdom; for it shall be double of that which is with you: and then shall you know, that a just recompence of your sins has come to you from the Lord.
Job 13:5But would that you⌃ were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
Jeremiah 23:18For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has listened, and heard?
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 →