Job 15:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Job 15:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
Jeremiah 23:18
For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
1 Corinthians 2:9-11
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. …
Job 12:2
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Atheism Attributes of God Conceit God Guidance Haughtiness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. secret--rather, “Wast thou a listener in the secret council of God?” The Hebrew means properly the cushions of a divan on which counsellors in the East usually sit. God’s servants are admitted to God’s secrets (Psa 25:14; Ge 18:17; Joh 15:15). restrain--Rather, didst thou take away, or borrow, thence (namely, from the divine secret council) thy wisdom? Eliphaz in this (Job 15:8, 9) retorts Job’…