Job 15:9
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
In Context
8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
Cross References
Job 12:3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
Job 26:3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
2 Corinthians 11:5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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 →