Holy Scripture

Job 15:8

A church father on this verse
“Eliphaz is just about to say, did you by any chance exist before the entire world, so that you learned about the most ancient times? Or did you learn anything from the mouth of God? You are not superior to us in knowledge at all. Since you had said that "wisdom is found in a long time," are you not caught in a trap no…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 15:7A-10B

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? Or has God used thee as his counselor? And has wisdom come only to thee?

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In context

6Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: And thy lips shall testify against thee.

7What! art thou the first man that was born? Or wert thou established before the hills?

— Job 15:8 —

9For what knowest thou, that we know not? Or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

10Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, More advanced in days than thy father.

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