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Job 15:18 KJV
Job · chapter 15 · verse 18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:Job 15:18 · King James Version
Job 15:18 in context
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.
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- wisechâkâmwiseH2450 →
- toldnâgadproperly, to frontH5046 →
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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