21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the living, and is hid from the [a]fowls of the heaven?

22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

23 But God understandeth the [b]way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:21 Meaning, that there is no natural means whereby man might attain to the heavenly wisdom: which he meaneth by the souls that fly high.
  2. Job 28:23 He maketh God only the author of this wisdom, and the giver thereof.

21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing,
    concealed even from the birds in the sky.(A)
22 Destruction[a](B) and Death(C) say,
    “Only a rumor of it has reached our ears.”
23 God understands the way to it
    and he alone(D) knows where it dwells,(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 28:22 Hebrew Abaddon