Parallel Verses

King James Version

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

New American Standard Bible

What wise men have told,
And have not concealed from their fathers,

Holman Bible

what was declared by wise men
and was not suppressed by their ancestors,

International Standard Version

which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.

A Conservative Version

which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,

American Standard Version

(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;

Amplified


What wise men have [freely] told,
And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,

Bible in Basic English

(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

Darby Translation

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;

Julia Smith Translation

Which the wise ones will announce, and he hid it not from their fathers.

King James 2000

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

Lexham Expanded Bible

what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,

Modern King James verseion

that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

NET Bible

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

New Heart English Bible

(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

The Emphasized Bible

Which, wise men, tell, and deny not that which is from their fathers.

Webster

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

World English Bible

(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

Youngs Literal Translation

Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חכם 
Chakam 
Usage: 137

נגד 
Nagad 
Usage: 370

and have not hid
כּחד 
Kachad 
Usage: 32

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

17 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 stranger passed among them.



Cross References

Job 8:8

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

Job 15:10

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Psalm 71:18

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Psalm 78:3-6

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

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