Job 15:8
6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
- KJV
- Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- WEB
- Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- ASV
- Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
- DARBY
- Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
- BLB
- Do you listen in the council of God, and reduce to yourself wisdom?
- ÅB
- Har du vært tilhører i Guds lønnlige råd og der tilranet deg visdom?
- OTB
- Lytter du til Guds hemmelige råd?
Krever du eksklusiv visdom? - B1930
- Har du vært tilhører i Guds lønnlige råd og der tilranet dig visdom?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 11:34
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Read in contextJeremiah 23:18
But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
Read in context1 Corinthians 2:16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Read in contextPsalms 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
Read in contextMatthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Read in contextMatthew 13:11
He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Read in contextJohn 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
Read in contextJob 11:6
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
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