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Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

Job 15:7

In 11 translations

BSB
Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
KJV
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
WEB
“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
ASV
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
LSV
Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
YLT
The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
DBY
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
DRC
Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?
GNV
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
JPS
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
LXXE
What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲרִאישׁ֣וֹן אָ֭דָם תִּוָּלֵ֑ד וְלִפְנֵ֖י גְבָע֣וֹת חוֹלָֽלְתָּ׃
LXX-Br
Τί γάρ; μὴ πρῶτος ἀνθρώπων ἐγεννήθης; ἢ πρὸ θινῶν ἐπάγης;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
  • Proverbs 8:22–25The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began. When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs…
  • Job 38:4–41Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its foundations set,…
  • Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
  • Genesis 4:1And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
  • Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

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