Job Chapter 15 verse 18 Holy Bible
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
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(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;
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Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it (comp. Job 8:8-10). Whether the words are his own or not, the sentiments, at any rate, Eliphaz declares to have come down to him from remote times. The "wise men" to whom he refers may have been men of the Beni Kedem (Job 1:3). who were noted for their wisdom (1 Kings 4:30), or possibly Egyptians or Babylonians. Books containing moral aphorisms and instructions were certainly composed both in Egypt and in Babyhmia at a very ancient date (see 'Records of the Past,' vol. 2. pp. 11-16; vol. 3. p. 135; vol. 7. pp. 119-122).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Which wise men have told from their fathers.--Here he adopts the language of Bildad (Job 8:8), appealing both to his own experience and that of universal tradition in an age prior to civil commotion and foreign disturbance.
