Job 28:27

then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.

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In The King James Version

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

In Context

26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:22LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

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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