Bible Strands
Job 8:10
Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A speaker in Job 8 addresses Job, following a declaration of human transience and preceding a botanical rhetorical question, to challenge Job’s reliance on ancestral tradition.
The words — י֭וֹרוּ/ךָ (Yo.ru./kha) = will they instruct/ you and יוֹצִ֥אוּ (yo.Tzi.'u) = will they bring forth? frame the transmission and production of speech from the heart.
The thread — The motif of teaching and drawing forth from the heart or store appears in Deuteronomy 6:7, Proverbs 18:15, and Matthew 12:35.
Why it lands — The verse demands that a reader test inherited instruction against present reality and examine the actual source of the words one accepts.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Cross-references
- Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
- Matthew 12:35 The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
- Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Job 12:7 But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
- Job 32:7 I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.
- Psalms 145:4 One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise man instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
- Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.
- Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.