Job 20:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:28 : 28 And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'
  • Gen 9:1-3 : 1 And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; 2 and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea -- into your hand they have been given. 3 Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers, 9 (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)
  • Job 15:10 : 10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.
  • Job 32:7 : 7 I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.
  • Ps 115:16 : 16 The heavens -- the heavens `are' Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

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    18 Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare -- if thou hast known it all.

    19 Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

    20 That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

    21 Thou hast known -- for then thou art born And the number of thy days `are' many!

  • 4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

  • 3 I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

  • 21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood `From' the foundations of the earth?

  • Job 15:7-9
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    7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

    8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

    9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

  • 6 Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

  • 20 And the wisdom -- whence doth it come? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

  • 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

  • Job 10:4-6
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    4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?

    5 As the days of man `are' Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?

    6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

  • 5 That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

  • 27 Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

  • 10 Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

  • 10 What `is' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

  • 10 There is a thing of which `one' saith: `See this, it `is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

  • 1 Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

  • 3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

  • Job 8:8-9
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    8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

    9 (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

  • 16 Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

  • 16 And if `there is' understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.

  • 3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 2 Truly I have known that `it is' so, And what -- is man righteous with God?

  • 13 Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

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    12 And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where `is' this, the place of understanding?

    13 Man hath not known its arrangement, Nor is it found in the land of the living.

  • 3 `Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

  • 20 Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

  • 4 I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • 2 According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.

  • 27 And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

  • 21 Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

  • 11 For he hath known men of vanity, And He seeth iniquity, And one doth not consider `it'!

  • 3 Jehovah, what `is' man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

  • 33 Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?

  • 4 Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

  • 4 With whom hast thou declared words? And whose breath came forth from thee?

  • 25 Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands `are' the heavens.

  • 4 As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

  • 14 I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

  • 17 What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

  • 21 Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

  • 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • 22 To God doth `one' teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?