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Job 15:9 Cross-References
Explore 6 cross-references for Job 15:9 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 15 verse 9 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?”
Job 15:9 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 15:9
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?—Eliphaz's rhetorical questions assert epistemological equality: Job knows nothing the friends don't know. The parallel structure—yada'ta (יָדַעְתָּ, 'you know') and tavin (תָּבִין, 'you understand')—emphasizes comprehensive knowledge. This dismisses Job's lived experience of undeserved suffering as epistemically worthless.The devastating irony: Job knows something they don't—what it's like to suffer innocently while maintaining integrity. His experiential knowledge challenges their theoretical system. Eliphaz rep...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 15:9
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“I know also. I am not inferior to you.”
“For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.”
“let him consider this again with himself”
“as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness)”
“and plentifully declared sound knowledge!”
“who doesn't know such things as these?”