Job 28:28

And unto adam He said, 1 See, the Yirat Adonoi, that is chochmah, 1 and to depart from rah is binah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

In Context

27Az (then) did He see it, and declare it; 1 He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 94:10He that chastiseth the Goyim, shall not He reprove? 1 He that is the melamed (teacher) of da'as to adam? 1

Proverbs 1:7The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da'as, 1 but fools despise chochmah and musar. 1

Proverbs 8:4Unto you, O ishim, I call out; 1 and my voice is to the Bnei Adam. 1

Proverbs 8:26While as yet He had not made eretz, nor the outer places, 1 nor the beginning of the dust of the tevel. 1

Proverbs 13:14The torat chacham (teaching of the wise) is a makor chayyim (fountain of life), 1 to turn one away from the snares of mavet. 1

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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