Job 28:28
And he said to man, “Behold the fear of the Lord. Such is wisdom. And to withdraw from evil, this is understanding.”
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In Context
27Then he saw and explained it, and he made ready and examined it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29These hidden things of the Lord our God have been revealed to us and to our sons in perpetuity, so that we may accomplish all the words of this law.”
Psalms 94:10For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Proverbs 8:4“O men, to you I call out, and my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:26Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.
Proverbs 13:14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, so that he may turn aside from the ruin of death.
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 →