Job 15:7

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Job 15:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

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Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

Job 12:12

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

Genesis 4:1

And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.

Job 38:4

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Job 38:5

Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

Job 38:6

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

Job 38:7

while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Job 38:12

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 38:14

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Job 38:15

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Job 38:16

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Job 38:18

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

Job 38:19

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Job 38:20

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

Job 38:21

Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Job 38:23

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:24

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:26

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:29

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Job 38:30

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Job 38:31

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:32

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Job 38:33

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Job 38:34

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 38:35

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Job 38:38

when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

Job 38:39

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 38:40

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

Psalms 90:2

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Proverbs 8:22

The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

Proverbs 8:23

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

Proverbs 8:25

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,