Job 15:18

Good News Translation

Those who are wise have taught me truths which they learned from their ancestors, and they kept no secrets hidden.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
what the wise have declared and not concealed,that came from their ancestors,

Hebrew Names Version
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

King James Version
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

English Standard Version
(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,

New Century Version
These are things wise men have told; their ancestors told them, and they have hidden nothing.

New English Translation
what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

Amplified Bible
What wise men have [freely] told, And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,

New American Standard Bible
What wise people have told, And have not concealed from their fathers,

World English Bible
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

Legacy Standard Bible
What wise men have told,And have not concealed from their fathers,

Berean Standard Bible
what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

Contemporary English Version
wisdom known by others since ancient times.

Complete Jewish Bible
wise men have told it, and it wasn't hidden from their fathers either,

Darby Translation
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;

Easy-to-Read Version
I will tell you what wise men would say, things they heard from their fathers and then freely passed on. They didn't hide any secrets from me.

George Lamsa Translation
That which wise men have declared, and did not hide from their fathers;

Lexham English Bible
what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,

Literal Translation
that which wise men have told and have not hidden from their fathers;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which wyse men haue tolde, & hath not bene hyd from their fathers:

American Standard Version
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;

Bible in Basic English
(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;

King James Version (1611)
Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

English Revised Version
(Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wise men knoulechen, and hiden not her fadris.

Update Bible Version
(Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;

Webster's Bible Translation
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:

New King James Version
What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,

New Living Translation
And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers—

New Life Bible
what wise men have told that they learned from their fathers. They have not hidden anything.

New Revised Standard
what sages have told, and their ancestors have not hidden,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Which, wise men, tell, and deny not that which is from their fathers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.

Revised Standard Version
(what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,

Young's Literal Translation
Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
What wise men have told, And have not concealed from their fathers,

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Now listen, Job, to what I know. ¹⁸ Those who are wise have taught me truths which they learned from their ancestors, and they kept no secrets hidden. ¹⁹ Their land was free from foreigners; there was no one to lead them away from God. ²⁰ The wicked who oppress others will be in torment as long as they live. ²¹ Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe. ²² They have no hope of escaping from darkness, for somewhere a sword is waiting to kill them, ²³ and vultures are waiting to eat their corpses. They know their future is dark; ²⁴ disaster, like a powerful king, is waiting to attack them. ²⁵ That is the fate of those who shake their fists at God and defy the Almighty. ²⁶They are proud and rebellious; they stubbornly hold up their shields and rush to fight against God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

from their: Job 15:10, Job 8:8, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 78:3-6, Isaiah 38:19

Reciprocal: Job 13:1 - ear

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria, and the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15
I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.

Genesis 15:1
After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."

Genesis 15:2
But Abram answered, "Sovereign Lord , what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.

Genesis 15:3
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."

Genesis 15:4
Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir."

Genesis 15:7
Then the Lord said to him, "I am the Lord , who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram asked, "Sovereign Lord , how can I know that it will be mine?"

Genesis 15:13
The Lord said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which wise men have told from their fathers,.... Men wise in the best sense, not to do evil, but to do good; not worldly wise men, but such who have wisdom, sound wisdom in the inward parts; who are wise to salvation, and who are partakers of divine and spiritual wisdom; and such men, as they would never tell an untruth, so they would never report a false or a foolish thing they had heard, nor any thing but upon a good testimony, what they have received from their fathers, who were also wise and good men; and therefore such a testimony, though not ocular, but by tradition, deserves regard:

and have not hid [it]; their fathers did not hide it from them, and what they have received from their fathers they did not hide it from their children; and so it came to be handed down from one to another with great truth, exactness, and certainty, and to be depended upon, see Psalms 44:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which wise men have told from their fathers - Which they have received from their ancestors and communicated to others. Knowledge among the ancients was communicated chiefly by tradition from father to son. They had few or no written records, and hence, they embodied the results of their observation in brief, sententious maxims, and transmitted them from one generation to another.

And have not hid it - They have freely communicated the result of their observations to others.