Job 15:7
“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
In Context
6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Cross References
Genesis 4:1The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with the LORD’s help.”
Job 15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Proverbs 8:25Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
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 →