Job 15:15

King James Version (1611 Edition)

Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If God puts no trust in his holy onesand the heavens are not pure in his sight,

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

King James Version
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

English Standard Version
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

New Century Version
God places no trust in his holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.

New English Translation
If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Amplified Bible
"Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels); Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight—

New American Standard Bible
"Behold, He has no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

World English Bible
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, He puts no faith in His holy ones,And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

Berean Standard Bible
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

Contemporary English Version
and neither are angels— not in the sight of God. If God doesn't trust his angels,

Complete Jewish Bible
God doesn't trust even his holy ones; no, even the heavens are not innocent in his view.

Darby Translation
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

Easy-to-Read Version
God does not even trust his angels. He does not even think the sky is pure.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Good News Translation
Why, God does not trust even his angels; even they are not pure in his sight.

Lexham English Bible
Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.

Literal Translation
Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His eyes.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.

American Standard Version
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Bible in Basic English
Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde he doth not trust his sainctes, yea, the very heauens are not cleane in his sight:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

English Revised Version
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! noon among hise seyntis is vnchaungable, and heuenes ben not cleene in his siyt.

Update Bible Version
Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his eyes:

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

New King James Version
If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

New Living Translation
Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.

New Life Bible
See, God puts no trust in His holy ones. The heavens are not pure in His eyes.

New Revised Standard
God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.

Revised Standard Version
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

Contextual Overview

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ² Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde? ³ Should hee reason with vnprofitable talke? or with speeches wherewith he can doe no good? ⁴ Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God. ⁵ For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie. ⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine owne lippes testifie against thee. ⁷ Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles? ⁸ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and doest thou restraine wisedome to thy selfe? ⁹ What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs? ¹⁰ With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father.

Bible Verse Review
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he putteth: Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Isaiah 6:2-5

Reciprocal: Job 5:1 - and to which Job 26:11 - are astonished Psalms 113:6 - humbleth Habakkuk 1:13 - of Romans 3:20 - in his sight Colossians 1:22 - in his

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things, the word of the LORD came vnto Abram in a vision, saying; Feare not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse? and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

Genesis 15:7
And he said vnto him; I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Caldees, to give thee this land, to inherit it.

Genesis 15:9
And he said vnto him, Take me an heifer of three yeeres old, and a shee goat of three yeeres old, and a ramme of three yeeres old, and a turtle doue, and a yong pigeon.

Genesis 15:13
And he said vnto Abram, Know of a surety, that thy seed shalbe a stranger, in a land that is not theirs, and shal serue them, and they shall afflict them foure hundred yeeres.

Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither againe: for the iniquitie of the Amorites is not yet full.

Genesis 15:19
The Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites:

Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a soiourner with you: giue me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 23:19
And after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the caue of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 35:29
And Isaac gaue vp the ghost and died, and was gathered vnto his people, being old and full of dayes: and his sonnes Esau and Iacob buried him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints,.... In holy men, set apart for himself by his grace, whose sins are expiated by the blood of his Son, and whose hearts are sanctified by his Spirit, and who live holy lives and conversations, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; these, though he trusts many of them with much, as the prophets of old with the messages of his grace and will, and the ministers of the word with treasure, in their earthen vessels, the sacred "depositum" of the glorious Gospel, with gifts of grace, fitting them for their work, and with the care of the souls of men; yet he trusts none of them with themselves, with the redemption and salvation of their souls, with the regeneration and sanctification of their hearts, and with their preservation to eternal glory; he has put those into the hands of his Son and Spirit, and keeps them by his power through faith unto salvation: the Targum renders it, in his saints above, in the saints in heaven, in glorified men; he is there their all in all; as their happiness, so their safety and protection; see an instance of his care and preservation of them after the resurrection, when in a perfect state, Revelation 20:8; or this may be understood of the angels, who sometimes are called saints, Deuteronomy 33:2; who though they have been trusted with many things to impart to the sons of men, yet not with the salvation of men, nor even with the secret of it; they were not of God's privy council when the affair was debated and settled; nor with other secrets, as the day and hour of the last judgment, the coming of the Son of Man: or the sense may be, "he putteth no perfection or stability" d in them, that is, perfection in comparison of his; for if theirs were equal to his, they would be gods, which it is impossible to be, or for God to make them such; and likewise such stability as to have been able to have stood of themselves, which it appears they had not, since many of them fell, and the rest needed confirming grace, which they have by Christ, the Head of all principalities and powers:

yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight; heaven born men, partakers of the heavenly calling, whose hearts and affections are set on heavenly things, and have their conversation in heaven; yet these, in the sight of a pure and holy God, and in comparison of him, are impure and unholy; or they of heaven, as Mr. Broughton renders it, the inhabitants of heaven; the angels on high, as the Targum paraphrases it; these are charged by him with folly, and they, conscious of their imperfection with respect to him, cover their faces with their wings, while they celebrate the perfection of his holiness, who is so glorious in it; though the natural heavens may be intended, at least not excluded, and the luminous bodies in them, as Bildad seems to explain it, Job 25:5; the stars are reckoned the more dense and thick part of the heavens, the moon has its spots, and by later discoveries it seems the sun is not without them, and the heavens are often covered with clouds and darkness, and the present ones will be purified with fire at the general conflagration, which supposes them unclean, and they shall pass away, and new ones succeed, which implies imperfection in the former, or there would be no need of others; this is the proof Eliphaz gives of what he had suggested in Job 15:14.

d לא יאמין "non posuit stabilitatem", Pagninus; "immutabilitatem, sive perfectionem absolutam", Vatablus; "firmum opus non produxit", Tigurine version; "non crediturns esset firmitatem", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints - In Job 4:18, it is, “in his servants,” but no doubt the same thing is intended. The reference is to the angels, called there servants, and here saints קדשׁים qôdeshı̂ym, holy ones; see the notes at Job 4:18.

Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight - In Job 4:18, “and his angels he charged with folly.” The general idea is the same. God is so holy that all things else seem to be impure. The very heavens seem to be unclean when compared with him. We are not to understand this as meaning that the heavens are defiled; that there is sin and corruption there, and that they are loathsome in the sight of God. The object is to set forth the exceeding purity of God, and the greatness of his holiness. This sentiment seemed to be a kind of proverb, or a commonplace in theology among the sages of Arabia. Thus, it occurs in Job 25:5, in the speech of Bildad, when he had nothing to say but to repeat the most common-place moral and theological adages -

Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not;

Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight:

How much less man, that is a worm,

And the son of man, which is a worm!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 15:15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. — The Vulgate has, "Behold, among his saints, none is immutable; and the heavens are not clean in his sight."

Coverdale. - Beholde, he hath found unfaithfulnesse amonge his owne sanctes, yea the very heavens are unclene in his sight.

Eliphaz uses the same mode of speech, Job 4:17; where see the notes. Nothing is immutable but GOD: saints may fall; angels may fall; all their goodness is derived and dependent. The heavens themselves have no purity compared with his.