Job 28:22
Abaddon and Death say, ‘We've only heard a rumor of it.’
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
In Context
21Wisdom is hidden from the sight of all living things, even the birds of the air cannot see it.
23Only God understands the path to wisdom; he knows where it is found.
Cross References
Job 28:14The deep waters say, ‘It's not here,’ and the sea says, ‘It's not here either.’
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 →