Job 28:23
God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
In Context
22Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.
24For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.
Cross References
Psalms 19:7His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to the end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.
Proverbs 2:6Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
Proverbs 8:22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
Matthew 11:27All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son, but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.
Acts 15:18To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.
1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us 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 →