Job 28:27

then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

In Context

26when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

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Cross References

Proverbs 8:22The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

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 →

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