Job 15:8

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? ¹  Do you limit ²  wisdom to yourself?

De 29:29; Job 11:6; Job 12:2; Job 13:5,6; Ps 25:14; Pr 3:32; Jer 23:18; Am 3:7; Mt 11:25; Mt 13:11,35; Joh 15:15; Ro 11:34; Ro 16:25,26; 1Co 2:9-11,16

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.”