“ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: ”
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 fat...
Job 15:2-19 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent ( Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion ( Job 15:4 ) and breaks the reverential...
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it :
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 'Which, as handed down from their fathers, wise men have told, and have not concealed.
The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he...
Which wise men have told from their fathers. — Here he adopts the language of Bildad ( Job 8:8 ), appealing both to his own experience and that of universal tradition in an age prior to civil commo...
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...
“The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using...
(17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no s...
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 ar...
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]: Ver. 18. Which wise men have told from their fathers ] Who have carefully and faithfully transmitted it as a doctrinal truth to...
I will show thee, hear me I will prove what I have affirmed, namely, that such strokes as thine are peculiar to hypocrites and wicked men. And that which I have seen I will declare I will not spe...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of consid...
17 I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, a...
Wise men; who are most able to be witnesses and judges in these matters. From their fathers, or ancestors ; who diligently observed this, and carefully transmitted their own judgment and experie...
SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s cou...
Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each spea...
Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety
Isaiah 38:19 ; Job 15:10 ; Job 8:8 ; Psalms 71:18 ; Psalms 78:3-6
Hid — They judged it to be so certain and important a truth, that they would not conceal it in their own breasts.