Job 15:9

What does Job 15:9 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 15:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?

Context

v.8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

v.9This passage

v.10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:7

    Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

  • 2 Corinthians 11:5

    For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • Job 12:3

    But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • Job 26:3

    How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • 2 Corinthians 11:21

    I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

  • Job 13:2

    What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

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