What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
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What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
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What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Job 15:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
- 2 Corinthians 11:5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
- Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
- Job 26:3-4 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?
- 2 Corinthians 10:7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
- 2 Corinthians 11:21-30 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation? If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not?…
Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
Ver. 9. What knowest thou, that we know not?] Here Eliphaz inveigheth against Job’s pride, sed maiori cam fastu, but with greater pride, else what meaneth this arrogant comparison? Did not a deceived heart turn him aside, as the prophet speaketh in another case? and might it not be said of him, as it was once of Antony, That he hated a tyrant, but not tyranny. {See Trapp on "Job 12:3"} {See Trapp on "Job 13:2"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He retorts upon Job his own expressions, Job 12:3;…
He retorts upon Job his own expressions, Job 12:3; 13:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain What knowest thou that we know not?.... Which are…
What knowest thou that we know not?.... Which are pretty near the words of Job to his friends, Job 12:3; and to the same sense is what follows:
what understandest thou which is not in us? in our hearts, minds, and understanding; or among us, which one or other, or all of us, have not: yet all men have not knowledge alike; some that profess themselves to be wise, and to have a large share of knowledge, are fools; and such who think they know something extraordinary, and more than others, know nothing as they ought to know; and such who have gifts of real knowledge have them different one from another; even of the things known there is not a like degree of knowledge, and particularly in spiritual things; some are little children in understanding, some are young men and know more, and some are fathers, and know most of all; an equality in knowledge belongs to another state, to the latter day glory, when the watchmen shall see eye to eye, and all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest, and especially to the ultimate glory, when saints will know as they are known.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. What knowest thou] Is it likely that…
Verse 9. What knowest thou] Is it likely that thy intellect is greater than ours; and that thou hast cultivated it better than we have done ours?
What understandest thou] Or, Dost thou understand any thing, and it is not with us? Show us any point of knowledge possessed by thyself, of which we are ignorant.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain What knowest thou that we know not? - What…
What knowest thou that we know not? - What pretensions or claims to wisdom have you which we have not? We have had, at least, equal advantages, and may be presumed to know as much as you.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain in us--or, "with us," Hebraism for "we are aware…
in us--or, "with us," Hebraism for "we are aware of."
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. Abandoning irony Eliphaz comes to the facts, which…
9. Abandoning irony Eliphaz comes to the facts, which hardly bear out Job’s pretensions. His words recall those of Job, ch. Job_12:3, Job_13:2.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain What knowest thou, that we know not? So far…
What knowest thou, that we know not? So far as worldly wisdom went, this was probably quite true. Job was not more advanced in knowledge than Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. But he had a keener spiritual insight. He was wiser in the "wisdom which is from above." Perplexed and confused as were his thoughts concerning the Divine government of the universe, they were nearer the truth, more worthy of the Divine nature, than those of his adversaries. In his reply, without claiming any special wisdom, he pours contempt on their pretensions to spiritual understanding. (Job_17:4, Job_17:10) What understandest thou, which is not in us? A mere repetition of the first member of the verse in different words.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:9-10 Aged, gray-haired men claim a monopoly on wisdom…
15:9-10 Aged, gray-haired men claim a monopoly on wisdom (8:8-10; 12:20; see 12:2).
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