KJV King James Version
[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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Job 15:11
[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
WEB World English Bible
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
ASV American Standard Version
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,
Surrounding context — Job 15
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?
10 With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?
14 What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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2 Corinthians 1:3-5Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;Job 13:2What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.1 Kings 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?Job 15:8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?Job 11:13-19If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;Job 5:8-26I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:Job 36:16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.2 Corinthians 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
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