Job 15:7
Good News Translation
Do you think you were the first person born? Were you there when God made the mountains?

New Revised Standard Version
“Are you the firstborn of the human race? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Contemporary English Version
Were you the first human? Are you older than the hills?

New American Bible
Were you the first to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

the first

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

Job 12:12 In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.

Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God.

or wast thou

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

*etc:

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Proverbs 8:22-25 I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
6Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee. 7Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?8Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?…
Cross References
Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:21
Didst thou know then that thou shouldst be born? and didst thou know the number of thy days?

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Proverbs 8:25
He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

Job 15:6
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