Job 20:4

World English Bible (2000)

Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  • Gen 9:1-3 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers. 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
  • Job 32:7 : 7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; but the earth has he given to the children of men.

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  • Job 38:18-21
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    18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

    20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

    21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

  • 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

  • 21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

  • Job 15:7-9
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    7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

    8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • 6 Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

  • 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

  • Job 10:4-6
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    4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

    6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

  • 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

  • 27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

  • 10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

  • 10 Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

  • 10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

  • 1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

  • 3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

  • Job 8:8-9
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    8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

  • 16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

  • 13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • Job 28:12-13
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    12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

    13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • 3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • 20 Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

  • 27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • 11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

  • 3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

  • 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

  • 4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

  • 4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

  • 25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

  • 4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

  • 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

  • 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  • 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • 22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?