Job 15:8

Translations

Modern

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Traditional

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Literal

Do you listen in the council of God, and reduce to yourself wisdom?

Latin

…numquid consilium Dei audisti, et inferior te erit ejus sapientia?

Original

Hebrew

English

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

Notes

Job 15:8

The book's readers know about God's secret council (1:6–12; 2:1–6; see 1 Kings 22:19–20; Psalm 89:5–7). But Job and his friends did not.

Job 15:7–8

When the Lord later gave a similar challenge, Job found it convincing (38:1–11).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Romans 11:34
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Jeremiah 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?
Romans 16:25–26
Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
Matthew 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.
Job 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.
Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
Proverbs 3:32
…for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
1 Corinthians 2:16
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
John 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.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Psalm 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
Job 12:2
“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

Glossary

Book of Job Eliphaz

Topics

God: Incomprehensible Mysteries of Redemption Pride: General Scriptures Concerning

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