Job 28:28
And He saith to man: — 'Lo, fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom, And to turn from evil [is] understanding.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
27Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:29'The things hidden [are] to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed [are] to us and to our sons — to the age, to do all the words of this law.
Psalms 94:10He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.
Proverbs 1:7Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Proverbs 8:4'Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice [is] unto the sons of men.
Proverbs 8:26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
Proverbs 13:14The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, To turn aside from 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 →