Job 28:23
God understands its way, and he knows its location.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
In Context
22Perdition and death have said, “With our ears, we have heard its fame.”
24For he beholds the limits of the world, and he looks upon all things that are under heaven.
Cross References
Psalms 19:7May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ. He will hear him from his holy heaven. The salvation of his right hand is in his power.
Proverbs 2:6For the Lord bestows wisdom, and out of his mouth, prudence and knowledge.
Proverbs 8:22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.
Matthew 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.
Acts 15:18To the Lord, his own work has been known from eternity.
1 Corinthians 1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption.
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 →