Job 15:18

THE MESSAGE

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;

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

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"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. ²⁷"Even if they're the picture of health, trim and fit and youthful, They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack. They'll never get ahead, never amount to a hill of beans. And then death—don't think they'll escape that! They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath. There's a lesson here: Whoever invests in lies, gets lies for interest, Paid in full before the due date. Some investment! They'll be like fruit frost-killed before it ripens, like buds sheared off before they bloom. The godless are fruitless—a barren crew; a life built on bribes goes up in smoke. They have sex with sin and give birth to evil. Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit."

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 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:1
After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield. Your reward will be grand!"

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, " God , Master, what use are your gifts as long as I'm childless and Eliezer of Damascus is going to inherit everything?" Abram continued, "See, you've given me no children, and now a mere house servant is going to get it all."

Genesis 15:4
Then God 's Message came: "Don't worry, he won't be your heir; a son from your body will be your heir."

Genesis 15:7
God continued, "I'm the same God who brought you from Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this land to own."

Genesis 15:8
Abram said, "Master God , how am I to know this, that it will all be mine?"

Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."

Genesis 15:17
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Genesis 50:24
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Deuteronomy 7:1
When God , your God, brings you into the country that you are about to enter and take over, he will clear out the superpowers that were there before you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than you are. God , your God, will turn them over to you and you will conquer them. You must completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction to God . Don't make a treaty with them. Don't let them off in any way.

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.