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New Revised Standard

Job 15:9

What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
What do you know that we don’t?What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Hebrew Names Version
What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
King James Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
English Standard Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
New Century Version
You don't know any more than we know. You don't understand any more than we understand.
New English Translation
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
Amplified Bible
"What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
New American Standard Bible
"What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?
World English Bible
What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
Geneva Bible (1587)
What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
Legacy Standard Bible
What do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that is not with us?
Berean Standard Bible
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Contemporary English Version
Do you know and understand something we don't?
Complete Jewish Bible
What do you know that we don't know? What discernment do you have that we don't?
Darby Translation
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
Easy-to-Read Version
We know as much as you do! We understand as well as you.
George Lamsa Translation
Or what do you know that we do not know? Or what do you under, stand that we do not understand?
Good News Translation
There is nothing you know that we don't know.
Lexham English Bible
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Literal Translation
What do you know that we do not know? Or understand, that is not with us?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?
American Standard Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
Bible in Basic English
What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
King James Version (1611)
What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
What knowest thou, that we knowe not? And what vnderstandest thou, but we can the same?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
English Revised Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What thing knowist thou, whiche we knowen not? What thing vndurstondist thou, whiche we witen not?
Update Bible Version
What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
Webster's Bible Translation
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
New King James Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?
New Living Translation
What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that we do not?
New Life Bible
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, and the same, is not with us?
Douay-Rheims Bible
What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
Revised Standard Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Young's Literal Translation
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?

Contextual Overview

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 2 "Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind? 3 Should they argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which they can do no good? 4 But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God. 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. 7 "Are you the firstborn of the human race? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8 Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

knowest: Job 13:2, Job 26:3, Job 26:4, 2 Corinthians 10:7, 2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 11:21-30

Reciprocal: Job 5:27 - we have searched Job 17:10 - for I Psalms 119:100 - understand

Cross-References

Genesis 22:13
And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Leviticus 1:3
If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall offer a male without blemish; you shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, for acceptance in your behalf before the Lord .
Leviticus 1:10
If your gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, your offering shall be a male without blemish.
Leviticus 1:14
If your offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, you shall choose your offering from turtledoves or pigeons.
Leviticus 3:1
If the offering is a sacrifice of well-being, if you offer an animal of the herd, whether male or female, you shall offer one without blemish before the Lord .
Leviticus 3:6
If your offering for a sacrifice of well-being to the Lord is from the flock, male or female, you shall offer one without blemish.
Leviticus 9:2
He said to Aaron, "Take a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord .
Leviticus 9:4
and an ox and a ram for an offering of well-being to sacrifice before the Lord ; and a grain offering mixed with oil. For today the Lord will appear to you.'"
Leviticus 12:8
If she cannot afford a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf, and she shall be clean.
Leviticus 14:22
also two turtledoves or two pigeons, such as he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:9. 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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