Job 28:23
But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
In Context
22Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’
24For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
Cross References
Psalms 19:7The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 8:22The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.
Matthew 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
Acts 15:18Known for ages to God are all His works.
1 Corinthians 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
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 →