Job 28:22

Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

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In Context

21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

23God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

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Cross References

Job 28:14The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

Matthew Henry on Job 28:21-28

The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. ( b. c. 1520.) 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the… Read the whole commentary →

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