Job 28:21
It hath been hid from the eyes of all living. And from the fowl of the heavens It hath been hidden.
Young's Literal Translation
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
20And the wisdom — whence doth it come? And where [is] this, the place of understanding?
22Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'
Cross References
Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answering said, 'I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.
Matthew 13:35that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, 'I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'
Colossians 2:3in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,
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 →