Job 28:28
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Psalms 94:10He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 8:4“To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:26before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.
Proverbs 13:14The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares 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 →