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Job 15:17 KJV
Job · chapter 15 · verse 17
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;Job 15:17 · King James Version
Job 15:17 in context
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- shewchâvâhproperly, to liveH2331 →
- hearshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- seenchâzâhto gaze atH2372 →
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Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-35