Job 28:21
No living humans can see it [MTY]; and birds cannot see it while they are flying [MTY].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
In Context
20“So, where does wisdom come from? Where can we find out how to truly understand things?
Cross References
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus prayed, “Father, you rule over everything in heaven and on the earth. I thank you that you have prevented people who think that they are wise [IRO] because they are well-educated, from knowing these things. Instead, you have revealed them to people who accept your truth as readily as little children [MET] do.
Matthew 13:35By doing that, he fulfilled what God told one of the prophets to write long ago: I will speak [MTY] in parables; I will tell parables to teach what I have kept secret since I created the world.
Colossians 2:3who alone is able to cause them and you to understand thoroughly [DOU] this very important message.
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 →