Job 15:8
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
In Context
7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
Cross References
Job 11:6that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Psalms 25:14The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Jeremiah 23:18For who has stood in the council of the LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?
Matthew 11:25At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Matthew 13:35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
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 →