Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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?
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 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 Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills? 8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not know, or understand that is not with us?
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Cross References
Romans 11:34
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
Jeremiah 23:18
For who has stood in the counsel of Jehovah, and hears His Word? Who has listened to His Word and heard it?
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.
Job 11:6
and would tell you the secrets of His wisdom, that sound wisdom is manifold? Know therefore that God forgets for you some of your iniquity.
Job 12:2
For truly you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 13:5-6
Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom.
Job 29:4
as I was in the days of my harvest, when the secret of God was on my tent;
Psalm 25:14
The secret of Jehovah is with those who fear Him; and He will show them His covenant.
Proverbs 3:32
For the crooked man is hateful to Jehovah, but His secret is with the righteous.
Amos 3:7
For the Lord Jehovah will do nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.
Matthew 13:11
He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:35
so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Romans 16:25-26
Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery, having been unvoiced during eternal times;
1 Corinthians 2:9-11
But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard," nor has it entered into the heart of man, "the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.