Job 28:28
And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
27Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.
Psalms 94:10Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. 1
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the + 1:7 Or, sum, or, top. beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:4You, O men, I exhort; and utter my voice to the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:26The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracks, and the highest inhabited parts of the world.
Proverbs 13:14The law of the wise is fountain of life: but the man void of understanding shall die by a snare.
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 →