Job 28:21
Wisdom is hidden from the eyes of all living things 1 and is kept hidden from the birds of the heavens. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
20From where, then, comes wisdom? 1 Where is the place of understanding? 1
22Destruction and Death say, 1 'We have heard just a rumor about it with our ears.' 1
Cross References
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you concealed these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children.
Matthew 13:35This was in order that what had been said through the prophet might come true, when he said, 1 “I will open my mouth in parables. 1 I will say things that were hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Colossians 2:3In him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
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 →