Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Psalms 94:10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:4“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
Proverbs 8:26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Proverbs 13:14The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.
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 →