Job 15:18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Job 15:18 in other translations
| BSB | what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers, |
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| 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; |
| YLT | Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers. |
| DARBY | Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden; |
| BBE | (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us; |
| Webster | Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: |
What does Job 15:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:17-35
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very…
Job 15:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:18
- Job 8:8
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
- Psalms 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.
- Isaiah 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.
- Psalms 78:3-6
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
- Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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Context
- Job 15:17
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
- Job 15:18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
- Job 15:19
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 15:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | (Lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ce que les sages ont déclaré d’après leurs pères et n’ont pas caché; – |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | was die Weisen verkündigt und nicht verhehlt haben von ihren Vätern her, - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sapientes confitentur, et non abscondunt patres suos: |