Job 28:28
And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
27Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Psalms 94:10He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:4O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:26He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
Proverbs 13:14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline 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 →