Job 28:7
The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
In Context
6The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold.
8The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it.
Cross References
Job 11:6That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.
Job 38:19Where is the way where light dwelleth, and where is the place of darkness :
Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
Matthew Henry on Job 28:2-12
Extent of Human Discoveries. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. 3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. 4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. 5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as… Read the whole commentary →