Job 15:9
New International Version
What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

New Living Translation
What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?

English Standard Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Berean Standard Bible
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

King James Bible
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

New King James Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?

New American Standard Bible
“What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?

NASB 1995
“What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?

NASB 1977
“What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?

Legacy Standard Bible
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?

Amplified Bible
“What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?

Christian Standard Bible
What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

American Standard Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
What do you know that we do not know, or what do you discern that was not with us?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

Contemporary English Version
Do you know and understand something we don't?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?

English Revised Version
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't?

Good News Translation
There is nothing you know that we don't know.

International Standard Version
What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

JPS Tanakh 1917
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

Literal Standard Version
What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us?

Majority Standard Bible
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

New American Bible
What do you know that we do not know, or understand that we do not?

NET Bible
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?

New Revised Standard Version
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

New Heart English Bible
What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Webster's Bible Translation
What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

World English Bible
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

Young's Literal Translation
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? 9What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.…

Cross References
Job 12:3
But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 13:2
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

Jeremiah 23:18
But 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?


Treasury of Scripture

What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?

knowest

Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

Job 26:3,4
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? …

2 Corinthians 10:7
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

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Job 15
1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
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Verse 9. - What knowest thou, that we know not? So far as worldly wisdom went, this was probably quite true. Job was not more advanced in knowledge than Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. But he had a keener spiritual insight. He was wiser in the "wisdom which is from above." Perplexed and confused as were his thoughts concerning the Divine government of the universe, they were nearer the truth, more worthy of the Divine nature, than those of his adversaries. In his reply, without claiming any special wisdom, he pours contempt on their pretensions to spiritual understanding (Job 17:4, 10). What understandest thou, which is not in us? A mere repetition of the first member of the verse in different words.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do you know
יָּ֭דַעְתָּ (yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

that we do not?
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

What do you understand
תָּ֝בִ֗ין (tā·ḇîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 995: To separate mentally, understand

that is not
וְֽלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

clear to us?
עִמָּ֥נוּ (‘im·mā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with


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