Job 15:17

Bible in Basic English

Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen to me and I will inform you.I will describe what I have seen,

Hebrew Names Version
"I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

King James Version
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

English Standard Version
"I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare

New Century Version
"Listen to me, and I will tell you about it; I will tell you what I have seen.

New English Translation
"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

Amplified Bible
"I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;

New American Standard Bible
"I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;

World English Bible
"I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:

Legacy Standard Bible
"I will tell you, listen to me;And what I have beheld I will also recount;

Berean Standard Bible
Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

Contemporary English Version
Just listen to what I know, and you will learn

Complete Jewish Bible
"I will tell you — hear me out! I will recount what I have seen;

Darby Translation
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;

Easy-to-Read Version
"Listen to me, and I will explain it to you. Let me tell you what I have seen.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear me, I will show you; and that which I have seen I will repeat;

Good News Translation
Now listen, Job, to what I know.

Lexham English Bible
"I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell—

Literal Translation
I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:

American Standard Version
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare--

King James Version (1611)
I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

English Revised Version
I will shew thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I schal schewe to thee, here thou me; Y schal telle to thee that, that Y siy.

Update Bible Version
I will show you, hear me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

Webster's Bible Translation
I will show thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen, I will declare;

New King James Version
"I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,

New Living Translation
"If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience.

New Life Bible
"I will tell you, listen to me. I will make known what I have seen,

New Revised Standard
"I will show you; listen to me; what I have seen I will declare—

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen.

Revised Standard Version
"I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare

Young's Literal Translation
I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

THE MESSAGE
"I've a thing or two to tell you, so listen up! I'm letting you in on my views; It's what wise men and women have always taught, holding nothing back from what they were taught By their parents, back in the days when they had this land all to themselves: Those who live by their own rules, not God's, can expect nothing but trouble, and the longer they live, the worse it gets. Every little sound terrifies them. Just when they think they have it made, disaster strikes. They despair of things ever getting better— they're on the list of people for whom things always turn out for the worst. They wander here and there, never knowing where the next meal is coming from— every day is doomsday! They live in constant terror, always with their backs up against the wall Because they insist on shaking their fists at God, defying God Almighty to his face, Always and ever at odds with God, always on the defensive.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen: ¹⁸ (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us; ¹⁹ For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:) ²⁰ The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small. ²¹ A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him: ²² He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword; ²³ He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him: ²⁴ He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him: ²⁵ Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all, ²⁶ Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hear me: Job 5:27, Job 13:5, Job 13:6, Job 33:1, Job 34:2, Job 36:2

Reciprocal: Job 13:1 - ear Psalms 44:1 - in the times Proverbs 24:30 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 15:19
The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

Judges 6:21
Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

Judges 13:20
And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.

2 Samuel 22:9
There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.

1 Chronicles 21:26
And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

Isaiah 62:1
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will show thee, hear me,.... Here Eliphaz proceeds to illustrate and make plain, to clear and defend, his former sentiment and proposition, and into which the rest of his friends came; that only wicked, and not righteous men, are afflicted of God, especially in such a manner as Job was; and he proposes to show things worthy of his regard, and not such vain and unprofitable things which Job had uttered; and, in order to stir up and engage his attention, he says what follows:

and that [which] I have seen I will declare; what he had been an eyewitness of himself; the same he had observed, Job 4:8; and such testimonies are most regarded, and reckoned most authentic and creditable, especially when they come from men of character; see Luke 1:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will show thee ... - The remainder of this chapter is a violent declamation, designed to overwhelm Job with the proofs of personal guilt. Eliphaz professes to urge nothing which had not been handed down from his ancestors, and was the result of careful observation. What he says is made up of apothegms and maxims that were regarded as containing the results of ancient wisdom, all meaning that God would punish the wicked, or that the wicked would be treated according to their deserts. The implied inference all along was, that Job, who had had so many proofs of the divine displeasure, must be a wicked man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:17. I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen l will declare — Eliphaz is now about to quote a whole collection of wise sayings from the ancients; all good enough in themselves, but sinfully misapplied to the case of Job.