Job 28:22
Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
In Context
21For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.
23God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;
Cross References
Job 28:14The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, 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 →