Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
New American Standard Bible
And limit wisdom to yourself?
King James Version
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Holman Bible
or have a monopoly on wisdom?
International Standard Version
Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself?
A Conservative Version
Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?
American Standard Version
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
Amplified
“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?
Bible in Basic English
Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
Julia Smith Translation
Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself?
King James 2000
Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Modern King James verseion
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee?
NET Bible
Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
New Heart English Bible
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
The Emphasized Bible
In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom?
Webster
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
World English Bible
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Youngs Literal Translation
Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
Interlinear
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
7 Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills? 8 Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself? 9 What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?
Names
Cross References
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor?
Jeremiah 23:18
For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, so that he hath perceived and heard his word? who hath hearkened to his word and listened?
Deuteronomy 29:29
The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law.
Job 11:6
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!
Job 12:2
Truly ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you!
Job 13:5-6
Oh that ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom.
Job 29:4
As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,
Psalm 25:14
The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them.
Proverbs 3:32
For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright.
Amos 3:7
But the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Matthew 11:25
At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
Matthew 13:11
And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given;
Matthew 13:35
so that that should be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the world's foundation.
John 15:15
I call you no longer bondmen, for the bondman does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known to you.
Romans 16:25-26
Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,
1 Corinthians 2:9-11
but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.