Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 15:18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:
18. The doctrine of Eliphaz is no novelty, it is his ( Job 15:17), but it is the consistent moral tradition of the wise from generation to generation. The phrase “have told and have not hid” means, have told openly, it is matter of public consent and teaching among them; cf. Isa 3:9, where the same words occur.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Which wise men have told from their fathers – Which they have received from their ancestors and communicated to others. Knowledge among the ancients was communicated chiefly by tradition from father to son. They had few or no written records, and hence, they embodied the results of their observation in brief, sententious maxims, and transmitted them from one generation to another.
And have not hid it – They have freely communicated the result of their observations to others.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Wise men; who are most able to be witnesses and judges in these matters.
From their fathers, or ancestors; who diligently observed this, and carefully transmitted their own judgment and experience successively to their posterity.
Have not hid it; they judged it to be so certain and important a truth, that they would not conceal it in their own breasts, but made conscience of publishing it for the instruction and comfort of succeeding ages.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
18. Rather, “and which ashanded down from their fathers, they have not concealed.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Which wise men have told from their fathers,…. Men wise in the best sense, not to do evil, but to do good; not worldly wise men, but such who have wisdom, sound wisdom in the inward parts; who are wise to salvation, and who are partakers of divine and spiritual wisdom; and such men, as they would never tell an untruth, so they would never report a false or a foolish thing they had heard, nor any thing but upon a good testimony, what they have received from their fathers, who were also wise and good men; and therefore such a testimony, though not ocular, but by tradition, deserves regard:
and have not hid [it]; their fathers did not hide it from them, and what they have received from their fathers they did not hide it from their children; and so it came to be handed down from one to another with great truth, exactness, and certainty, and to be depended upon, see Ps 44:1.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(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.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Job 15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:
Ver. 18. Which wise men have told from their fathers ] Who have carefully and faithfully transmitted it as a doctrinal truth to us, their posterity, from hand to hand. For in Job’s time it is likely that the Scriptures were not yet written. Which, or, which things wise men Who did, in their generations, Deum recte cognoscere et colere, rightly know and worship God, which is the highest wisdom, saith Lactantius.
Have told
From their fathers
And have not hid it
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
from their: Job 15:10, Job 8:8, Psa 71:18, Psa 78:3-6, Isa 38:19
Reciprocal: Job 13:1 – ear