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Job 15:8

Context

15:8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? 1 

Do you limit 2  wisdom to yourself?

Job 28:26

Context

28:26 When he imposed a limit 3  for the rain,

and a path for the thunderstorm, 4 

1 tn The meaning of סוֹד (sod) is “confidence.” In the context the implication is “secret counsel” of the Lord God (see Jer 23:18). It is a question of confidence on the part of God, that only wisdom can know (see Prov 8:30,31). Job seemed to them to claim to have access to the mind of God.

2 tn In v. 4 the word meant “limit”; here it has a slightly different sense, namely, “to reserve for oneself.”

3 tn Or “decree.”

4 tn Or “thunderbolt,” i.e., lightning. Heb “the roaring of voices/sounds,” which describes the nature of the storm.



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