Job 15:7 - Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

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Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
…6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you. 7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?…

Cross References

Job 38:4
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.Job 38:21
Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Job 12:12
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

or wast thou

Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Proverbs 8:22-25
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old…

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Job 15

1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17. He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men

(7) Art thou the first man that was born?--This is a retort upon Job 12:2; Job 12:7; Job 12:9, where Job had claimed equal knowledge for the inanimate creation.

Verse 7. - Art thou the first man that was born? That is, "Dost thou claim to have the wisdom of that first human intelligence, which, proceeding direct from God (Genesis 1:27), was without fault or flaw - a perfect intelligence, which judged all things aright?" It is not clear that Eliphaz had ever heard of Adam; but he evidently believed in a "first man," from whom all others were descended, and he attributed to this first man a mind and intellect surpassing those of all other men. His question is, of course, rather a scoff than an inquiry. He knows that Job makes no such foolish pretence; but he throws it in his teeth that, from what he has said, men might suppose he took some such view of himself. Or wast thou made before the hills? This is a taunt of the same kind as the previous one, but intensified. Wisdom is the result of experience. Art thou older than all the rest of us - older than the earth itself, than "the everlasting hills"? There were Greeks who claimed to be ethnically προσέληνοι, "older than the moon," but no inhabitant of earth was ever so foolish as to imagine himself individually more ancient than the earth on which he lived. Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

Were you the first
הֲרִאישׁ֣וֹן (hă·ri·yō·šō·wn)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7223: First, in place, time, rank

man
אָ֭דָם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

ever born?
תִּוָּלֵ֑ד (tiw·wā·lêḏ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Were you brought forth
חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃ (ḥō·w·lā·lə·tā)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert

before
וְלִפְנֵ֖י (wə·lip̄·nê)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the hills?
גְבָע֣וֹת (ḡə·ḇā·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1389: A hillock

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