Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
New American Standard Bible
And why do your eyes flash,
King James Version
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Holman Bible
and why do your eyes flash
International Standard Version
Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash
American Standard Version
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
Amplified
“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]?
And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],
Bible in Basic English
Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
Darby Translation
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
Julia Smith Translation
Why shall thy heart take thee? and why shall thine eyes wink?
King James 2000
Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
Modern King James verseion
Why does your heart carry you away? And what do your eyes wink at,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,
NET Bible
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
New Heart English Bible
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
The Emphasized Bible
How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!
Webster
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
World English Bible
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
Youngs Literal Translation
What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee? 12 Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash, 13 that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 11:13
If thou set thy heart aright, and stretch out thy hands toward him,
Job 17:2
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
Psalm 35:19
Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
Proverbs 6:13
who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers,
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. But know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgmen
Mark 7:21-22
For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
Acts 5:3-4
But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land?
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee.
James 1:14-15
But each man is tempted by his own lust, being drawn away and enticed.