Job 15:12
New International Version
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

New Living Translation
What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,

English Standard Version
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Berean Standard Bible
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

King James Bible
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

New King James Version
Why does your heart carry you away, And what do your eyes wink at,

New American Standard Bible
“Why does your heart take you away? And why do your eyes wink,

NASB 1995
“Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,

NASB 1977
“Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,

Legacy Standard Bible
Why does your heart take you away? And why do your eyes flash,

Amplified Bible
“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]? And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],

Christian Standard Bible
Why has your heart misled you, and why do your eyes flash

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why has your heart misled you, and why do your eyes flash

American Standard Version
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Why is your heart lifted up and why do your eyes beckon us?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed at,

Contemporary English Version
Your emotions are out of control, making you look fierce;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things ?

English Revised Version
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why have your emotions carried you away? Why do your eyes flash

Good News Translation
But you are excited and glare at us in anger.

International Standard Version
Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

JPS Tanakh 1917
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?

Literal Standard Version
Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?

Majority Standard Bible
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

New American Bible
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

NET Bible
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

New Revised Standard Version
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

New Heart English Bible
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Webster's Bible Translation
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

World English Bible
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Young's Literal Translation
What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you? 12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, 13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?…

Cross References
Job 11:13
As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Job 15:13
as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

Job 36:13
The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Proverbs 6:13
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.


Treasury of Scripture

Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,

thine heart

Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Mark 7:21,22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …

Acts 5:3,4
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? …

thy eyes

Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Psalm 35:19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Proverbs 6:13
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

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Job 15
1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17. He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men














(12) What do thy eyes wink at?--Or, Why do they wink? as though it was only thou who perceivedst it.

Verse 12. - Why doth thine heart carry thee away? or, Whither doth thine heart carry thee away? i.e. to what a pitch of presumption and audacity do thy proud thoughts carry thee? And what do thy eyes wink at? or, Wherefore do thy eyes roll? The verb used occurs only in this place. Its meaning is very doubtful.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Why
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

has your heart
לִבֶּ֑ךָ (lib·be·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

carried you away,
יִּקָּחֲךָ֥ (yiq·qā·ḥă·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

and why
וּֽמַה־ (ū·mah-)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do your eyes
עֵינֶֽיךָ׃ (‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

flash,
יִּרְזְמ֥וּן (yir·zə·mūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 7335: To twinkle the eye


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