Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 35:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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Role in This Section
Job 35:15 advances the thought unit with the words “But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not….” Elihu turns or qualifies the speech with “But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger” inside Elihu Tells Job to Wait and Calls His Words Empty.
Read It With
- Job 35:14–35:16
Read Job 35:15 with 35:14–35:16. Read alone, “But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu says judgment remains before God despite Job's inability to see, then concludes that Job speaks without knowledge.
Why It Needs Context
Job 35:15 depends on 35:14–35:16; isolating “But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Tells Job to Wait and Calls His Words Empty.”
Read Job 35:14–16 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 35:14–35:16 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Tells Job to Wait and Calls His Words Empty.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 14. 14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Verse 15. 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Verse 16. 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 35:14–35:16 — Elihu Tells Job to Wait and Calls His Words EmptySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 35:14–35:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 35:14–35:16
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