The Meaning of Job 15:10 Explained

Job 15:10

KJV: With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

YLT: Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us -- Greater than thy father in days.

Darby: Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.

ASV: With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

With us [are] both the grayheaded  and very aged  men, much  elder  than thy father. 

What does Job 15:10 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 15:1-35 - "the Heavens Are Not Clean"
The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, Job 15:2-3, and even impious, Job 15:5-669. His very speech testified to his iniquity, 1711642532_4. With something of irony Eliphaz asks upon what Job's claim to superior wisdom rests. Was he the first man? Job 15:7. Or had he access to the secret counsel of God? Job 15:8. In refusing the counsel of his friends, Job 15:9-10, and the consolations of God they had offered, Job 15:11, r.v., had he not proved his want of wisdom? He had even proved his folly and his impiety, by attempting to assert his innocence before God, Job 15:12-14, in whose presence even the heavens were unclean, Job 15:15-16. It is clear that Eliphaz and his friends did not believe the sincerity of Job's protestations of innocence.
Eliphaz then attempts to instruct Job, Job 15:17-35. His theme is almost the same as that of his former speech. It is the righteousness of God as specially manifested in the punishment of the wicked. He claims that his doctrine is that of the wise men, Job 15:17-19; then proceeds to describe the wicked man as troubled in conscience and full of fear, Job 15:20-24; attributes this to his bold impiety, Job 15:25-28; and predicts his fearful doom, Job 15:29-35. The application of such teaching to Job must have been very painful. He insinuated that Job's terrible afflictions were God's testimony against his sin. We know better from John 11:4-5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 15

1  Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17  He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men

What do the individual words in Job 15:10 mean?

Both the gray-haired and the aged [are] among us Much [older than your father much elder
גַּם־ שָׂ֣ב גַּם־ יָשִׁ֣ישׁ בָּ֑נוּ כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים

גַּם־  Both 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
שָׂ֣ב  the  gray-haired 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: שִׂיב  
Sense: (Qal) to be hoary, be gray.
יָשִׁ֣ישׁ  the  aged 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: יָשִׁישׁ  
Sense: aged, old man, aged one.
בָּ֑נוּ  [are]  among  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural
כַּבִּ֖יר  Much  [older 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: כַּבִּיר  
Sense: mighty, great, powerful, many, much.
מֵאָבִ֣יךָ  than  your  father 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine singular
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.
יָמִֽים  much  elder 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.