the Third Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Read the Bible
Good News Translation
Job 15:7
Bible Study Resources
Dictionaries:
- AmericanEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
Were you the first human ever born,or were you brought forth before the hills?
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
"You are not the first man ever born; you are not older than the hills.
"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
"Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man], Or were you created before the hills?
"Were you the first person to be born, Or were you brought forth before the hills?
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
"Were you the first man to be born,Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
Were you the first human? Are you older than the hills?
"Were you the firstborn of the human race, brought forth before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
"Do you think you were the first person ever to be born? Were you born before the hills?
Are you the first man that was born? Or were you conceived before the hills?
"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth before the hills?
Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?
Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles?
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles?
Art thou the first man that euer was borne? or wast thou made before the hils?
What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Whether thou art borun the firste man, and art formed bifor alle little hillis?
Are you the first of man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
"Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?
"Were you the first man to be born? Or were you made before the hills?
"Are you the firstborn of the human race? Were you brought forth before the hills?
The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?
Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?
"Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
"Were you the first man to be born, Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the first: Job 15:10, Job 12:12, Genesis 4:1
or wast thou: Job 38:4-41, Psalms 90:2, Proverbs 8:22-25
Reciprocal: Job 32:6 - durst not Job 38:12 - since Job 38:21 - General Proverbs 8:25 - General
Cross-References
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.
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.
But Abram answered, "Sovereign Lord , what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.
Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir."
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."
But Abram asked, "Sovereign Lord , how can I know that it will be mine?"
You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.
When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.
"I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Art] thou the first man [that] was born?.... The first Adam, who was created in wisdom and knowledge, and had a large share of understanding in things natural, civil, and moral; knew much of God and his perfections, of the works of nature, and of the wisdom and power of God displayed in them; one instance of which is his giving names to the creatures; dost thou think thou art that selfsame individual person, the father of all mankind, who had such a stock and fund of knowledge, until, by seeking after more, and that unlawful, he lost much of what he had? dost thou imagine that thou hast lived ever since, and seen or known everything that was done in all ages from the beginning, and hast gathered a large share of knowledge from long experience, and by making strict observations on men and things in such a length of time? or, as the Targum,
"wast thou born with the first man, without father and mother?''
and hast thou existed ever since? or, "wast thou born before Adam?" before the first man z? Art thou the wisdom and son of God, who was before Abraham, before Adam, before any creature whatever, was in the beginning with God, and was God? What dost thou make thyself to be, Job? thou, a mere man, dost thou make thyself to be the eternal God? for to be before the first man, or to be the firstborn of every creature, or to be born before every creature, is expressive of eternity, as is the following phrase:
or wast thou made before the hills? or existed before they did? as is said of the son of God, Proverbs 8:25; what is before the hills and mountains is eternal; the eternal God and his eternity are thus described, Psalms 90:2.
z So Mercerus, and some in Vatablus, Schmidt, Jarchi, & Bar Tzemach.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Art thou the first man that was born? - Hast thou lived ever since the creation, and treasured up all the wisdom of past times, that thou dost now speak so arrogantly and confidently? This question was asked, because, in the estimation of Eliphaz and his friends, wisdom was supposed to be connected with long life, and with an opportunity for extended and varied observation; see Job 15:10. Job they regarded as comparatively a young man.
Wast thou made before the hills - The mountains and the hills are often represented as being the oldest of created objects, probably because they are the most ancient things that appear on earth. Springs dry up, and waters change their beds; cities are built and decay; kingdoms rise and fall, and all the monuments of human skill and art perish; but the hills and mountains remain the same from age to age. Thus, in Psalms 90:2 :
Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
So in Proverbs 8:25, in the description of wisdom:
Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills was I brought forth.
So the hills are called “everlasting” Genesis 49:26, in allusion to their great antiquity and permanence. And so we, in common parlance, have a similar expression when we say of anything that “it is as old as the hills.” The question which Eliphaz intends to ask here of Job is, whether he had lived from the creation, and had observed everything?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:7. Art thou the first man that was born? — Literally, "Wert thou born before Adam?" Art thou in the pristine state of purity and innocence? Or art thou like Adam in his first state? It does not become the fallen descendant of a fallen parent to talk as thou dost.
Made before the hills? — Did God create thee the beginning of his ways? or wert thou the first intelligent creature which his hands have formed?
