Job 15:8

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?”

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BSBPD

“Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 15:8 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
  2. Job 11:6and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
  3. Job 12:2“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!
  4. Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
  5. Job 29:4when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
  6. Psalms 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
  7. Proverbs 3:32for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.
  8. Jeremiah 23:18But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?
  9. Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
  10. Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
  11. Matthew 13:11He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
  12. Matthew 13:35So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
  13. John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
  14. Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
  15. Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
  16. 1 Corinthians 2:9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
  17. 1 Corinthians 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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