Job 15:9
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Job 15:9 in other translations
| BSB | What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |
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| WEB | What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? |
| ASV | What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? |
| YLT | What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us? |
| DARBY | What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us? |
| BBE | What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours? |
| Webster | What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? |
What does Job 15:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:1-16
Eliphaz begins a second attack upon Job, instead of being softened by his complaints. He unjustly charges Job with casting off the fear of God, and all regard to him, and restraining prayer. See in what religion is summed up, fearing God, and praying to him; the former the most needful principle, the latter the most needful practice. Eliphaz charges Job with self-conceit. He charges him with contempt of the counsels…
Job 15:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:9
- Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- 2 Corinthians 11:5
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
- 2 Corinthians 10:7
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
- Job 26:3-4
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?
- Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
- 2 Corinthians 11:21-30
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. …
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Context
- Job 15:8
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- Job 15:9
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
- Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Job 15:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Qué sabes tú que no sepamos? ¿qué entiendes que no se halle en nosotros? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que sais-tu que nous ne sachions? que comprends-tu qui ne soit également avec nous? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Was weißt du, das wir nicht wüßten, was verstehst du, das uns nicht bekannt wäre? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quid nosti quod ignoremus? quid intelligis quod nesciamus? |