Job 15:18
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Read in contextPsalms 71:18
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Read in contextPsalms 78:3–6
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Read in contextJob 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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