🌪️WEB · Job 15:18

What does Job 15:18 mean?

"(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;"

— Job 15:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

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(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

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the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

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