Job 15:18
16 how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
17 Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
20 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
- KJV
- Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
- WEB
- (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
- ASV
- (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
- DARBY
- Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
- BLB
- what the wise have brought forward and have not concealed from their fathers,
- ÅB
- det som vise menn forkynner og ikke har dulgt, det som de mottok fra sine fedre,
- OTB
- hva de vise har proklamert,
og ikke skjult fra sine forfedre, - B1930
- det som vise menn forkynner og ikke har dulgt, det som de mottok fra sine fedre,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 8:8
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Read in contextPsalms 71:18
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:19
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
Read in contextPsalms 78:3–6
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Read in contextJob 15:10
Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
Read in context