Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?

New American Standard Bible

“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And limit wisdom to yourself?

King James Version

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Holman Bible

Do you listen in on the council of God,
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?

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?

Darby Translation

Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the secret
סוד 
Cowd 
Usage: 21

of God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

and dost thou restrain
גּרע 
Gara` 
Usage: 22

חכמה 
Chokmah 
Usage: 149

References

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

7 Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills? 8 Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself? 9 What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

Cross References

Romans 11:34

For who has known the mind of Lord? Or who became his counselor?

Jeremiah 23:18

For who has stood in the council of LORD, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has marked my word, and heard it?

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Job 11:6

and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves.

Job 12:2

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Job 13:5-6

O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.

Job 29:4

as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

Psalm 25:14

The friendship of LORD is with those who fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

Proverbs 3:32

For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Amos 3:7

Surely lord LORD will do nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Matthew 11:25

Jesus having responded at that time, said, I extol thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, because thou hid these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to the childlike.

Matthew 13:11

And having answered, he said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to those men it has not been given.

Matthew 13:35

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled, which says, I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things concealed from the foundation of the world.

John 15:15

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

Romans 16:25-26

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times,

1 Corinthians 2:9-11

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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