Job 15:8
Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
BSB
ASV
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
KJV
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Hast thou heard the secret of God?.... Or, "in the secret of God" (a), in his cabinet council, what was said and done there? hast thou stood in the council of God? hast thou been one of his privy council, or counsellors, and been let into all the secrets of God, of his purposes and providence, and into the reasons of all his administrations, that thou talkest so freely, and boldly, and confidently as thou dost?
Hast thou heard the secret of God? - “Hast thou hearkened in God’s council?” Wert thou one of the celestial cabinet, when God said, Let Us make man in Our image, and in Our likeness? Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? - Dost thou wish us to understand that God’s counsels were revealed to none but thyself? And dost thou desire that we should give implicit credence to whatsoever thou art pleased to speak? These are all strong sarcastic questions, and apparently uttered with great contempt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
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He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.
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1 Corinthians 2:16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to…