21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. …
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: …
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)The question which Job had asked (Job 28:12) he asks again here; for it is too worthy, too weighty, to be let fall, until we speed in the enquiry. Concerning this we must seek till we find, till we get some satisfactory account of it. By a diligent prosecution of this enquiry he brings it, at length, to this issue, that there is a twofold wisdom, one hidden in God , which is secret and belongs not…
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