Job 15:17

17 "I'll tell you; listen to me! I'll relate what I have seen.

Job 15:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 15:17

I will show thee, hear me
Here Eliphaz proceeds to illustrate and make plain, to clear and defend, his former sentiment and proposition, and into which the rest of his friends came; that only wicked, and not righteous men, are afflicted of God, especially in such a manner as Job was; and he proposes to show things worthy of his regard, and not such vain and unprofitable things which Job had uttered; and, in order to stir up and engage his attention, he says what follows:

and that [which] I have seen I will declare;
what he had been an eyewitness of himself; the same he had observed, ( Job 4:8 ) ; and such testimonies are most regarded, and reckoned most authentic and creditable, especially when they come from men of character; see ( Luke 1:1 Luke 1:2 ) ( 1 John 1:1 ) .

Job 15:17 In-Context

15 If God doesn't trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight,

16 how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt, the one who drinks wickedness like water.

17 "I'll tell you; listen to me! I'll relate what I have seen.

18 I'll tell you what wise people have declared and what was not kept secret from their ancestors.

19 (The land was given to them alone, and no stranger passed through their land.)