Job 15:18
Good News Translation
Those who are wise have taught me truths which they learned from their ancestors, and they kept no secrets hidden.

New Revised Standard Version
what sages have told, and their ancestors have not hidden,

Contemporary English Version
wisdom known by others since ancient times.

New American Bible
What the wise relate and have not contradicted since the days of their ancestors,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.

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Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.

from their

Job 15:10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

Job 8:8 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Psalm 78:3-6 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. . . .

Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
17I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen. 18Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.19To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.…
Cross References
Job 8:8
For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:

Job 15:17
I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen.

Job 15:19
To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.

Job 20:4
This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

Psalm 78:4
They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

Job 15:17
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